compare mothers' and fathers' willingness to pay (WTP) for specific goods for their children, diverging from the previous …This paper tests whether mothers and fathers differ in their spending on their daughters relative to their sons. We … literature's approach of comparing the expenditure effects of mothers' versus fathers' income. Our method, which we apply in …

physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from …

maternal pregnancy health is larger for black than for white mothers, suggesting that projected increases in extreme heat over …

stimulation program in Colombia, whose target population were low-income households with children aged 12 to 24 months at baseline …-child interactions and other maternal behaviors that foster the development of children's cognitive and non-cognitive skills. We show … that the vast majority of mothers believe that the technology of skill formation follows a Cobb-Douglas parameterization …

Evidence shows that the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is underutilized …

effect of teen childbearing. Despite this, there are still reasons to believe that children of teen mothers may do worse as … children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that negative … selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes. These …

This paper investigates if the impact of children on the labor market outcomes of women relative to men -- child … adoptive families using event studies around the arrival of children and almost forty years of adoption data from Denmark …. Short-run child penalties are slightly larger for biological mothers than for adoptive mothers, but their long-run child …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college … educated mothers are particularly responsive to changes in environmental amenities. I estimate that differences in exposure to … toxic releases may explain 6% of the gap in incidence of low birth weight between infants of white college educated mothers …

Surveillance Survey, we find in difference-in-difference models that for low-educated mothers of two or more children, the number … families based on the number of children, with families containing two or more children now receiving substantially more in … benefits. If income is protective of health, we should see improvements over time in the health for mothers eligible for the …