examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following … weekly work hours of employed mothers of one-to-three year-old children by 6 to 9% and that their wage incomes may have risen …

Maternity and family leave policies enable mothers to take time off work to prepare for and recover from childbirth and … to care for their new children. While there is substantial variation in the details of these policies around the world …

mothers in this group. In contrast, we document consistent evidence that an increase in the WBA leads to a small increase in …

physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from …

well as on the division of leave between mothers and fathers in dual-earner households. Using difference-in-difference and …

for white mothers. At childbirth, heat-exposed mothers are more likely to have hypertension and have longer hospital stays …

crimes, and focus on mothers who lived in a home where an assault was reported during their pregnancies. We compare these … mothers to women who lived in a home with an assault that took place shortly after the birth.We find that assaults in the 3rd …

in infant and maternal health. Infants and mothers at the top of the income distribution have worse birth and morbidity …