fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … Austria. Women giving birth on different weekdays are pre-treatment observationally identical. Our instrumental variable … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in …

eligibility for extended parental leave and geographical variation in formal childcare. We find that estimated treatment effects … on long-term child outcomes differ substantially according to the availability of formal childcare and the mother … capital outcomes only if the reform induces a replacement of informal childcare with maternal care. We conclude that care …

This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European … transition to the second birth differs both among working and non-working women and across countries. For non-working women … delayed motherhood leads to a postponement effect which is higher in countries where religion and social norms determine a …

The impact of the duration of parental leave on women's employment in Korea is examined by focusing on the … benefit more than those in small- or medium-sized firms. Second, the extension encouraged women to return to work 2-3 years …

pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women …

the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves. -- teenage motherhood … on child outcomes within a plausible exogeneity framework to isolate the transmission from teen motherhood per se. Our … ; education ; fertility ; children ; instrumental variables ; compulsory schooling laws …

We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico … observe small or null impacts on women's health from increasing sanctions on illegal abortion. We find some evidence to …

appears that, in response to fewer childcare options, self-employed mothers away from their birth-place work fewer hours …Women face unique challenges in starting and running their own businesses and may have differing motives to men for … pursuing self-employment. Previous research suggests that married women with families value the flexibility that self …

investments in childcare: Mothers who take extended maternity leave in quasi-experimental settings are more likely to face mental … 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 …

population and to analyze how those beliefs relate to choices. In terms of pecuniary returns, mothers' (and fathers') later … her child spends in childcare. Family outcomes on the other hand, such as the quality of the mother-child relationship and … availability of full-time childcare and relaxing constraints could substantially increase maternal labor supply. Importantly, it is …