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 …

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 …

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 …

Research on the effect of in utero shocks on health at birth may be influenced by in utero selection. This study … changes the probability of fetal death and (ii) health differences exist between deceased and surviving fetuses. Furthermore …

pre-conception period has detrimental impacts on fertility. In addition, heat during pregnancy increases pregnancy losses …

larger for boys, children from rural or poor households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that …Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses … health policies designed to improve birth weight could improve human capital in resource-poor settings. …

records of all refugee arrivals and birth events between 2010 and 2017 show that children born to mothers who were exogenously …This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth using a natural …

comprehensive set of health, non-cognitive development, and academic outcomes of children and adolescents. Applying an individual …The relationship between physical activity and child health and development is well-documented, yet the extant … literature provides limited causal insight into the amount of physical activity considered optimal for improving any given health …

(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 …