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 …

on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in …

skills (emotional stability, social skills) shows rather small effects on each type of skill. We find that both mothers and … fathers are important, but mothers are somewhat more important for cognitive skills and fathers for noncognitive ones …

school dropout. For mothers with low education we find a 5.2 percentage points decline. The effect is also especially large … for children of mothers who, prior to the reform, would take very low levels of unpaid leave …

offspring of mothers who experienced the China Great Leap Forward Famine. The direct impact on entrance to senior high school is …

) for 11 countries in sub-Saharan Africa that provide information on mother's HIV status and enable us to link mothers and … the intergenerational transfers: mother's HIV status and community HIV prevalence. First, we find that mothers transfer 37 … mother's HIV status has large detrimental effect on inheritability of human capital. HIV-infected mothers are 30% less likely …

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 …

introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July … expenditure or their consumption of directly child-related goods and services. Instead, eligible mothers stayed out of the labor …