the increasing importance of non-wage benefits in total compensation packages. As hedonic wage theory suggests, mothers … might view health benefits as desirable and trade-off wages for health insurance. Thus, lower wages for mothers might …

We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two … municipalities in The Netherlands, a country with relatively high benefits and low incentives for single mothers to leave welfare for … work. In our analysis, we make a distinction between native and immigrant welfare recipients. For immigrant single mothers …

variation in the amount of time that mothers can remain home with a newborn child. I use this variation to estimate local … Birth cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, the OLS results show that children of working mothers score higher …. An auxiliary analysis of mechanisms finds that working mothers experience an increase in depressive symptoms, and are …

been credited with increased employment for single mothers and a dramatic drop in welfare caseload. Our results show that … health status and medical utilization for children with working and nonworking mothers. We find that the child's health …

Worldwide, single mothers are profoundly time and income constrained, making them heavily reliant on government … transfers. We examine how welfare reforms that introduced mutual obligations affected the economic position of single mothers … data, we show that disposable incomes of single-mother households were significantly reduced relative to partnered mothers …