's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human … provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care arrangements. …

with regard to mothers ́mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care … concerned with how mothers ́mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not … indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found …

earnings. This paper examines the role of health at birth in determining academic achievement in childhood, which may provide … data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in … effects concentrated in the low birthweight range. Infant health measures appear to explain little of the well …

and birth outcomes in forecasting child health (as indicated by height and weight), child behavioral problems, and a child …

We investigate the effects of incentivizing early prenatal care utilization on infant health by exploiting a reform … that required expectant mothers to initiate prenatal care during the first ten weeks of gestation to obtain a one … health. We further provide suggestive evidence that improved maternal health-related knowledge and behaviors during pregnancy …

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. …We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of …

physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a …-term physical and mental health and subjective well-being. There is weak, but not robust, evidence for increased satisfaction with …

children with lower (observed and unobserved) gains are more likely to select into child care than children with higher gains …. This pattern of reverse selection on gains is driven by unobserved family background characteristics: children from … disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to attend child care than children from advantaged backgrounds but have larger treatment …

non-mothers who work and mothers who do not work are more likely to agree that pre-school children suffer if mothers work …’s employment on children’s wellbeing (which proxy traditional gender attitudes). Drawing on a large, representative and …