with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the … contraceptive properties of nursing. Second, given a preference for having sons, mothers with no or few sons want to conceive again … sons and daughters, having few or no older brothers results in earlier weaning. Third, these gender effects peak as mothers …

significant increase in maternity leave mandates in Canada. We find very large increases in mothers' time away from work post …

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 …

In 2005, hurricanes Katrina and Rita forced many children to relocate across the Southeast. While schools quickly …

whether maternal perceptions of neighborhood quality affect children's bodyweight outcomes, and whether racial and ethnic … quality is not significantly related to children's bodyweight. However, one particular characteristic, namely whether or not … robust and significant effects on the BMI-percentile of the children, though it has less robust effects on the risk of …

This paper studies the effect of mothers' education on fertility in a population with very low female labor force … number of children, better knowledge and higher probability of using contraceptives, recognition that family size can … compromise children quality, larger role for women in family decision making, less religiosity, and positive attitude towards …

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 …

Surveillance Survey, we find in difference-in-difference models that for low-educated mothers of two or more children, the number … families based on the number of children, with families containing two or more children now receiving substantially more in … benefits. If income is protective of health, we should see improvements over time in the health for mothers eligible for the …

children's lives. Among mothers of six month old infants, maternal work hours are positively associated with depressive …, we estimate the effects of maternal employment on these outcomes measured when children are 6 months old. Next, we use … symptoms and self-reported parenting stress, and negatively associated with self-rated overall health among mothers. Compared …