This paper analyzes the impact of expansions in leave coverage on mothers' labor market outcomes after childbirth. The …

liberalization when mothers were 20 years old. We find a robust positive association between progressive beliefs among the … grandmothers' cohort and mothers' likelihood to work while having a small child (0 to 5 years old) relative to similar women …

, and working mothers are on a path toward a high-wage equilibrium, slow convergence can permanently lose earnings. We use … maternal leave exacerbates the shock which pleads against long leaves. Similarly, cash transfers to mothers via the income … effect on labor supply aggravate gender wage differences. By contrast, temporary subsidies to mothers' wages (possibly in the …

that temporal flexibility has a U-shaped relationship with the wage rates of both fathers and mothers, and that temporal …

the increasing importance of non-wage benefits in total compensation packages. As hedonic wage theory suggests, mothers … might view health benefits as desirable and trade-off wages for health insurance. Thus, lower wages for mothers might …

, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …