mothers and fathers. The Australian 2009 Fair Work Act explicitly entitled parents of young children to request a (reasonable … mothers to reduce their weekly working hours without renouncing their permanent contract, hence maintaining a regular schedule …. Second, with this work arrangement, working mothers' child penalty declined from a 47 percent drop in hours worked to a 38 …

This paper investigates the determinants of school attendance of children and their motherś working status when the … motherś participation and the schooling status of her children in a joint framework. Using the second National Family Health …, children of working mothers have a lower probability of attending school. This, together with the result that only illiterate …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel … policies assisting children born to early mothers and preventive policies tackling early pregnancy. …