physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from …

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 …

target, the long-run Phillips curve becomes non-vertical. During 1997-2011, average inflation expectations in Sweden have … unemployment rate has been about 0.8 percentage points higher than if average inflation had been on target. This is a large … unemployment cost of undershooting the inflation target …

's mandate-consistent rate and the latter's target, respectively, and their unemployment forecasts were above sustainable rates …

This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force …

children born to less educated and minority mothers are more likely to be exposed to pollution in utero and that white, college … educated mothers are particularly responsive to changes in environmental amenities. I estimate that differences in exposure to … toxic releases may explain 6% of the gap in incidence of low birth weight between infants of white college educated mothers …

benefits. If income is protective of health, we should see improvements over time in the health for mothers eligible for the … Surveillance Survey, we find in difference-in-difference models that for low-educated mothers of two or more children, the number … of days with poor mental health and the fraction reporting excellent or very good health improved relative to the mothers …

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 …