these expansions are correlated with employment and leave-taking for both mothers and fathers over this period. Our main … finding is that leave expansions have increased the amount of time that new mothers and fathers spend on leave, with effects … the CPS, we describe trends in parents' employment and leave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to …

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 …

While workplace flexibility is perceived to be a key determinant of maternal labor supply, less is known about fathers … presence at home as a function of domestic stochastic shocks, and use variation from a Swedish reform that granted new fathers … physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from …

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 …

construct more relevant control groups for teenage mothers. We find evidence that teenage childbearing likely reduces the …

their mothers may be less mature, have fewer financial resources when the child is young, and may partner with fathers of … children born to the youngest teen mothers. Unlike previous research, we have information on fathers and find that negative … selection of fathers of children born to teen mothers plays an important role in producing inferior child outcomes. These …

In the U.S. teen mothers are more likely to give birth to low birth weight babies than non-teen mothers. There is also … estimator to identify the impact of smoking on babies of teen and non-teen mothers. We find that both OLS and matching estimator …