physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from … impacts of paternal access to workplace flexibility on maternal postpartum health. We model household demand for paternal … documented—but also indirectly, as fathers' inability to respond to domestic shocks exacerbates the maternal health costs of …

Maternity and family leave policies enable mothers to take time off work to prepare for and recover from childbirth and … to care for their new children. While there is substantial variation in the details of these policies around the world … introduction of short paid and unpaid leave programs can improve children's short- and long-term outcomes. Fourth, while more …

at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with …

with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … contraceptive properties of nursing. Second, given a preference for having sons, mothers with no or few sons want to conceive again …

This paper documents a counter-cyclical pattern in the health of children, and examines whether this pattern is due to … post-neonatal mortality. These health improvements are attributable both to selection (differences in the type of mothers … selection of mothers choosing to give birth or due to behavioral changes. We study the relationship between the unemployment …

This study investigates whether rights to paid parental leave improve pediatric health, as measured by birth weights … senior citizens, whose health is not expected to be affected by parental leave. More generous leave rights are found to … reduce deaths of infants and young children. The magnitudes of the estimated effects are substantial, especially for those …

birth weight and gestational age of the newborns of these mothers. An increase in earnings does not influence the health of …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 …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in … two children with the same mother but where a parent of the mother died during one of the pregnancies--augmented with a …

Michael Grossman’s seminal publication on the demand for health and health production (Grossman 1972) has spawned a … substantial body of research focusing on the production of infant health. This article provides a systematic review of the … published literature to date on infant health production and how it has evolved over the past 3-4 decades as data have become …