children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn … children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not …

We study how childbirth increases the likelihood of young, working mothers to claim disability insurance and how … paternity leave. Our regression discontinuity difference-in-differences design shows that mothers with partners eligible for a …

for 17 million births in 72 countries, we demonstrate that indicators of mother's health and health-related behaviours are … and poorer countries, evident even among women who do not use IVF, and hold for numerous different measures of health. We … implies that estimates of impacts of fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to …

physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from … impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. We model household demand for paternal … documented - but also indirectly, as fathers' inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health costs of …

adverse effect for children of low-educated mothers on human capital investments and labor-market attachment in early … difference-in-differences design and comparing the first-affected with the last-unaffected cohorts of children, we find that an … adulthood. The affected children were 12 p.p. more likely not to be in education, employment, or training (NEET) at the age of …

child, as well as on their subsequent fertility by exploiting unique, rich administrative data in a difference … all dissipate by five years after birth. The mandate instead persistently increased subsequent fertility: affected women … greater early child care availability experienced a larger increase in subsequent fertility following the mandate, suggesting …

for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market … be beneficial for both maternal and child health and for mothers' labor market outcomes. Second, there appear to be … negligible benefits from a leave extending beyond six months in terms of health out-comes and children's long-run outcomes …

children. …

'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. …

siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 …-pregnancy obesity was examined using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression to compare across mothers and fixed effects to compare …