imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant … differential help-seeking behavior across the sexes or postpartum depression. Instead, they are related to mothers' higher … investments in childcare: Mothers who take extended maternity leave in quasi-experimental settings are more likely to face mental …

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

mothers are perceived as still having worse health at older ages, even if their objective health status has recovered. These … boys are also more likely to have private health insurance, which suggests more concerned mothers. …

allows us to study the income effect. After the reform, mothers substantially prolonged the average period they drew an … allowance. The labor market participation of mothers of young children decreased by 6 percentage points (15%). The estimated … particularly strong among mothers with their first child (10 p.p. or 28%) and among university-educated mothers (16 p.p. or 36 …

exploit the setting of the German reunification. A state socialist country, East Germany strongly encouraged mothers to … reunification, we show that even a partial exposure to East German colleagues induces "native" West German mothers to accelerate …

non-mothers who work and mothers who do not work are more likely to agree that pre-school children suffer if mothers work …

liberalization when mothers were 20 years old. We find a robust positive association between progressive beliefs among the … grandmothers' cohort and mothers' likelihood to work while having a small child (0 to 5 years old) relative to similar women …

We investigate how mother’s employment during childhood affects long term child outcomes. We utilize rich longitudinal …