countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and … national basis. This chapter reviews various types of leave policies available for working mothers (or parents) across …

children aged below five years. Using detailed dataset from the current and fourth round of the National Family Health Survey … health, neglect of children in terms of inadequate provision of essential child care also seem to matter. The results from … for children born to mothers who are currently working and are thus empowered. …

The empirical evidence on the inter-generational effects of maternal health interventions is inconclusive, particularly … the impact on cognitive ability of children. In this paper, we study one such popular policy from India, viz, the Janani … Suraksha Yojana (JSY) which is a agship health and safe motherhood program. We exploit plausible exogenous variation in …

Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the … child with health problems when women enter the last decade of their reproductive life. I present a simple theoretical model …

rate in general, but by definition only for households with children. Overall the reform has a positive impact on labour …

This paper analyzes the relationship between education and health outcomes using a natural experiment in Turkey. The … substantially increased education in Turkey. Using the number of new middle school class openings per 1000 children as an intensity … attainment to investigate the impact of education on body mass index, obesity, smoking behavior, and self-rated health, as well …

Socio- Economic Survey (HSES) to examine the correlation between the presence of children of different age categories in a … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …

over 70,000 individuals in the Synthetic SIPP Beta to examine the earnings gap between mothers and non-mothers over the … lifecycle and between cohorts. We observe women who never have children beginning to out earn women who will have children … similar patterns, with experience gaps between mothers and non-mothers generally increasing over the lifecycle and de …

(CEL) of 1997, and the differentiation in its implementation across regions, as instruments for schooling of young mothers … education of mothers increases the probability of completing the full course of DPT and Hepatitis B vaccinations for their … children. The results are robust to variation in regression specification and including various individual and community …

covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that … several early-life health indicators. Robust evidence shows that such nutrition supplements effectively increase boys' weight … and reduce their probability of being underweight. No effect is observed on girls of similar age. These health indicators …