time mothers spend with their children. Since the institutional context is one in which the alternative is subsidized day …We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a … reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate …

become mothers and of women eventually attaining a completed fertility of zero. We document that these groups' satisfaction … paths diverge around five years before mothers' first birth, even after adjusting for differences in observables. In our …

lower as compared to that of newborn babies of single mothers. The family status effects in the 2000s are stronger as they …) studies, we find that the significantly positive impact of family status on children's health outcomes disappears if we … confine our sample to mothers, who are below the age of 22 years. We conclude that social and financial stress may have an …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human … provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care-arrangements. …

instrument is supported by a host of validity tests. This strategy also enables us to predict mothers' abilities. Our results …

notable gender gap in both wages and earnings, which widens substantially after women have children. In this paper we study … arrival of children. However, restricting part-time work options would lower maternal employment, and thereby also widen the …