children's lives. Among mothers of six month old infants, maternal work hours are positively associated with depressive … symptoms and self-reported parenting stress, and negatively associated with self-rated overall health among mothers. Compared … to mothers who are on leave 3 months after childbirth, mothers who are working full-time score 22 percent higher on the …

promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers … tend to enter on lower ranks than non-mothers. 37 percent of the gap can be explained by rank fixed effects and human …

production, including time with children. In looking at family, we focus on mothers with children. Next we examine key challenges … faced by mothers as they seek to combine motherhood and paid work: workforce interruptions associated with childbearing, the … gendered norms play in shaping outcomes for mothers. We conclude by discussing policies that have the potential to increase …

worked, children are also an important determinant for the decision of college‐educated mothers to choose to work part …

workplace “family friendliness” and analyze the effect of more family friendly workplaces on the career gaps between mothers and … fathers. We find that exogenously moving mothers to more family friendly workplaces would raise their wages and labor income … reduce the motherhood penalty to earned income by facilitating mothers working more hours. Furthermore, the benefits of …