virtually no effect. Mothers' work interruptions of up to two months before birth have a positive effect on birth outcomes …

law change in Norway that extended smoking restrictions to bars and restaurants, we find that children of female workers … birth weight alone, the smoking restriction law in Norway could result in a 0.2 percentage point increase in full time …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of the intergenerational transmission of health to exogenous changes in income …, education and public health, changes that are often delivered by economic growth. It uses individual survey data on 2.24 million … children born to 600000 mothers during 1970-2000 in 38 developing countries. These data are merged with macroeconomic data by …

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

particular, subsidized mothers report lower levels of overall health and are more likely to show symptoms consistent with anxiety … fill this gap by examining the impact of child care subsidy receipt on maternal health and the quality of child … care subsidies are associated with worse maternal health and poorer interactions between parents and their children. In …

significant costs that are borne by displaced workers. We study how job displacement in Norway affects cardiovascular health using … a sample of men and women who are predominantly aged in their early forties. To do so we merge survey data on health and … health behaviors with register data on person and firm characteristics. We track the health of displaced and non …

The employment behavior of mothers is strongly influenced by labor market regulations and certain institutional …

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 …

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 …

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 …