-Evans (1998) reduced-form natural experiment of having two first children of the same sex on the probability of an incremental …

's employment during her children's childhood has an asymmetric effect on the educational achievement of her own sons and daughters … about the implications of these asymmetric effects on the mothers' labor supply decisions and find supporting evidence in …

This paper investigates the impact of mothers' earnings on birth weight and gestational age of infants. It also … analyzes the impact of earnings on mothers' consumption of prenatal medical care, and their propensity to smoke and drink … mothers' earnings and employs a two-sample instrumental variables strategy. About 14 million records of births between 1989 …

Using a Danish data set that follows 135,000 Danish children from birth through 9th grade, we examine the effect of … maternal employment has a positive effect on children's academic performance in all specifications, particularly when women … contexts, and which finds no or a small negative effect of maternal employment on children's cognitive development and academic …

In this paper, we formulate a model of early childhood development in which mothers have subjective expectations about … affects the maternal choices of investments in the human capital of children. Unfortunately, the model is not identified from … data that are usually available to econometricians. To solve this problem, we conduct a study where mothers were …

between mothers that could bias estimates. Our results are consistent with recent experimental results in the neurobiological … development. Moreover, we find that not only are mothers with low levels of human capital characterized by higher and more …

We consider the effects of daytime fasting by pregnant women during the lunar month of Ramadan on their children's test …