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 …

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 …

Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn … cutoff due date. As an additional source of exogenous variation, we use information on non-working mothers, who are not … children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …

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 …

virtually no effect. Mothers' work interruptions of up to two months before birth have a positive effect on birth outcomes … variables ; child health production functions …

adverse effect for children of low-educated mothers on human capital investments and labor-market attachment in early … of home production. Sons of low-educated mothers, on the other hand, were less likely to be employed. The results suggest …

law change in Norway that extended smoking restrictions to bars and restaurants, we find that children of female workers … birth weight alone, the smoking restriction law in Norway could result in a 0.2 percentage point increase in full time …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in …

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 …Labor market policies for expecting and new mothers emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century. The main motivation …

examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following … weekly work hours of employed mothers of one-to-three year-old children by 6 to 9% and that their wage incomes may have risen …