In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003 … outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers it also narrowed the gap in maternal health between …, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

two or more kids. Heterogeneity analysis suggests no causal effects of fertility on female employment among mothers with …We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and … less than college education and older mothers (born before 1978). Furthermore, we find evidence for the interaction of …

effect of postponing motherhood is identified using biological fertility shocks, namely the occurrence of miscarriages and … stillbirths. Focusing on mothers' behavior around first birth our study is able to isolate the effect of motherhood postponement … evidence that late motherhood prevents a worsening of new mothers' job conditions (the so-called "mommy track"). Our findings …

Using rich longitudinal register data from Denmark, we show that the allocation of mothers between the competitive …, mothers – post first childbirth – are increasingly switching from the private to the public sector and are also less likely to …

This paper examines how the public policy environment in the United States affects work by new mothers following … policy environment has important effects, particularly for less advantaged mothers. There is a potential conflict between …

fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment …

decreases the time mothers spend in the labor market. Few studies on lower-income countries, in which low household wealth … positive effect of an instrument-induced increase in fertility on maternal employment driven by an increase in informal work …

implies that estimates of impacts of fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to … instrument fertility will tend to be downward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that these relationships are …