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

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 …

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 …

teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is … her friends' mothers' choices when she was a teenager, and the interaction between the two. The empirical salience of this … distant she is (in terms of working hours) from the friends' mothers …

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 …

effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women's ability to work, while the introduction of infant formula reduced mothers …

relationship between work environment and the labor force participation of mothers. We first document a large variation in labor …