maternity leave in Norway in July 1977. Mothers giving birth before this date were eligible only for 12 weeks of unpaid leave … mothers with low education we find a 5.2 percentage points decline in high school dropout and an 8% increase in wages at age … 30. The effect is especially large for children of those mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of …

Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn … cutoff due date. As an additional source of exogenous variation, we use information on non-working mothers, who are not … children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …

physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from … impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. We model household demand for paternal … documented — but also indirectly, as fathers' inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health costs of …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in …

Maternity and family leave policies enable mothers to take time off work to prepare for and recover from childbirth and …

following childbirth, it does not level off to zero. The employment loss is lower for mothers with a university degree. It is … especially high for medium-skilled mothers with long pre-birth employment experience. We find a significant reduction in the …

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

Paid maternity leave has gained greater salience in the past few decades as mothers have increasingly entered the … workforce. Indeed, the median number of weeks of paid leave to mothers among OECD countries was 14 in 1980, but had risen to 42 … Norway which expanded paid leave from 18 to 35 weeks (without changing the length of job protection).Our first empirical …

We study the relationship between the length of maternity leave and the physical and psychological health of the family … compensation, we estimate the effect of the length of maternity leave on a range of health indicators including the number of … maternity leave matters for child or maternal health outcomes and thus we complement the existing evidence on maternity leave …