children's lives. Among mothers of six month old infants, maternal work hours are positively associated with depressive … symptoms and self-reported parenting stress, and negatively associated with self-rated overall health among mothers. Compared … to mothers who are on leave 3 months after childbirth, mothers who are working full-time score 22 percent higher on the …

production, including time with children. In looking at family, we focus on mothers with children. Next we examine key challenges … faced by mothers as they seek to combine motherhood and paid work: workforce interruptions associated with childbearing, the … gendered norms play in shaping outcomes for mothers. We conclude by discussing policies that have the potential to increase …

workplace “family friendliness” and analyze the effect of more family friendly workplaces on the career gaps between mothers and … fathers. We find that exogenously moving mothers to more family friendly workplaces would raise their wages and labor income … reduce the motherhood penalty to earned income by facilitating mothers working more hours. Furthermore, the benefits of …

This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force … participation. The results we present are particularly relevant to many countries in the Muslim world where 70-80 percent of women …

We show that close geographical proximity to mothers or mothers-in-law has a substantial positive effect on the labor … for married women with young children living in close proximity to their mothers or their mothers-in-law compared with …