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 …

length, which includes leave taking by mothers and fathers, and behavioral and physical health outcomes among new mothers …In the United States, almost a third of new mothers who worked during pregnancy return to work within three months of … childbirth affects families' health and wellbeing. The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between family leave …

While much is now known about the effects of physical health shocks to pregnant women on the outcomes of the in …

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

Maternity leaves can affect mothers' and infants' welfare if they first affect the amount of time working women stay at … and expansion of job-protected maternity leave in Canada. The substantial variation in leave entitlements across mothers … of 17-18 weeks do not increase the time mothers spend at home. The physical demands of birth and private arrangements …

Maternity and family leave policies enable mothers to take time off work to prepare for and recover from childbirth and …

Paid maternity leave has gained greater salience in the past few decades as mothers have increasingly entered the … workforce. Indeed, the median number of weeks of paid leave to mothers among OECD countries was 14 in 1980, but had risen to 42 … Norway which expanded paid leave from 18 to 35 weeks (without changing the length of job protection). Our first empirical …

sample of working mothers. Two measures of depression and a measure of overall health are used to represent maternal health …The objective of this paper is to investigate the impact of the length of maternity leave on maternal health in a … and mental health as measured by frequent outpatient visits during the first six months after childbirth …

Research suggests that teenage childbearing adversely affects both the outcomes of the mothers as well as those of … by changes in compulsory schooling laws in both the United States and Norway to estimate the effect in two very different … childbearing in both the United States and Norway, and these results are quite robust to various specification checks. Somewhat …

Newborn health is an important component in the chain of intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. This paper … contributes to the literature on the determinants of health at birth in two ways. First, we analyze the role of maternal …