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Does Single Motherhood Hurt Infant Health Among Young Mothers?

Kim, Albert Young-Il - 2017

any significant advantage of legal marriage among young mothers …

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Mergers and Birth Outcomes : Evidence from Maternity Ward Closures

Avdic, Daniel - 2018

mothers who gave birth and their newborns. Applying a difference-in-differences approach to register data on all births in … Sweden over two decades, we show that the closures negatively affected the health of mothers, while effects on infant health … were small and insignificant. The adverse effects on mothers are mainly driven by crowding effects at remaining wards …

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Child Sleep and Maternal Labour Market Outcomes

Costa-Font, Joan - 2018

We show that sleep deprivation exerts strong negative effects on mothers' labour market performance. To isolate … flexibility for mothers with sufficient tenure mitigates the negative effects of sleep deprivation …

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Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity in China : Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey

Nie, Peng - 2014

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal employment and obesity in children aged 3–17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for pediatric adiposity, we provide scant evidence for...

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Does Unemployment Worsen Babies' Health? A Tale of Siblings, Maternal Behaviour and Selection

De Cao, Elisabetta - 2019

We study the effect of unemployment on birth outcomes by exploiting geographical variation in the unemployment rate across local areas in England, and comparing siblings born to the same mother via family fixed effects. Using rich individual data from hospital administrative records between 2003...

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Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data

Amarante, Verónica - 2012

There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of births in Uruguay, we estimate that participation in a...

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Child Health, Remote Work and the Female Wage Penalty

Kouki, Amairisa - 2020

Using data on American women and the health status of their children, this paper studies the effect of remote work on female earnings. Instrumental variables estimates, which exploit a temporary child health shock as exogenous variation in the propensity to work at home, yield an hourly wage...

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Remote Work and the Heterogeneous Impact of Covid-19 on Employment and Health

Angelucci, Manuela - 2020

This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i.e. those who can work from home) and non-remote workers in the United States. Using a large, nationally-representative, high-frequency panel dataset from March through July of 2020,...

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The Length of Maternity Leave and Family Health

Beuchert, Louise - 2014

We study the relationship between the length of maternity leave and the physical and psychological health of the family. Using a reform of the parental leave scheme in Denmark that increased the number of weeks of leave with full benefit compensation, we estimate the effect of the length of...

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The Contribution of Female Health to Economic Development

Bloom, David E. - 2015

We analyze the economic consequences for less developed countries of investing in female health. In so doing we introduce a novel micro-founded dynamic general equilibrium framework in which parents trade off the number of children against investments in their education and in which we allow for...

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