Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women's careers … around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal … that expanded paid leave from 30 weeks in 1989 to 52 weeks in 1993. The representation of women in top positions has only …

behavior of married women in six European countries (Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy, Germany and United Kingdom) using … that cross-country differences in the employment rate and the persistence of employment transitions of married women are …

nearly two decades. Women in program villages also experienced other benefits: lower child mortality, improved health status …

, especially among adolescent mothers after the completion of Women's Health Project. …, especially among vulnerable young adolescent mothers in Bangladesh. We exploit the exogenous variation in community's access to … local health facilities (both traditional and modern) before and after the completion of the 'Women's Health Project' in …

In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large … survey data. We find more patient choices among women who have a higher number of children. The age of children matters: The … preferences of spouses diverge, and support the view that empowering women in developing countries should lead to more future …

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are … much higher among Austrian mothers. In order to find out to what extent these differences can be attributed to differences …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …

of women's empowerment in improving children's nutrition during the critical first two years of life, a recognized …

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 … reveal no such association. In fact, our results suggest a protective effect of obesity in that women who are obese …

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 …