imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant … differential help-seeking behavior across the sexes or postpartum depression. Instead, they are related to mothers' higher … investments in childcare: Mothers who take extended maternity leave in quasi-experimental settings are more likely to face mental …

We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical … children increases. In these advanced economies the negative impact on fertility deriving from the fact that fewer pregnancies … are needed to get a boy is more than compensated by the positive effect on fertility deriving from the greater stability …

This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European … delayed motherhood leads to a postponement effect which is higher in countries where religion and social norms determine a …-time employment opportunities. We show that the overall effect of delayed motherhood depends on these two opposite forces, which are …

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated … introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July … that the benefit did lead to a significant increase in fertility, as intended, part of it coming from an immediate …

declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in surviving fertility persisted for … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades. …

on child outcomes within a plausible exogeneity framework to isolate the transmission from teen motherhood per se. Our … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves. …