'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. …

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

Superstition is a widespread phenomenon. We empirically examine its impact on health-related behavior and health … bad outcomes, we observe substantial adaptions in health-related behavior. Our identification exploits idiosyncratic … is a quantum effect, the latter two effects reflect changes in the timing of events. Efficient public health policy …

cause of death with parents' labour market outcomes, health outcomes, marital status, and subsequent fertility. We exploit …

their opportunity cost of childbearing, could successfully reduce the fertility rate disparity related to mothers' education …In this paper, I assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby … a differences-in-differences design, I estimate the causal impact of the reform on fertility for up to 5 years. In …

overall improvement in the health at birth (as measured by the low birth weight indicator) of the cohorts exposed to the shock …. Moreover, we find significant improvements in health at birth exclusively for boys and not for girls. This effect seems to be … fetuses and, as a result of this selection in utero, at birth, one should observe significant improvements in health outcomes …

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 …

The increased demand for a more equal parental sharing of the responsibilities for children has led many countries to … should be provided in order to prevent mothers from taking too large share of the family's leave time. …

has remained fairly constant. In this paper we re-evaluate the labour supply responses of both mothers and fathers to … reflect actual time off from work in a system where job-protection exceeds paid leave. We find that both mothers and fathers …

-born mothers, the reform also caused a decrease in educational attainment. Thus, this suggests that the effect of spacing children …In this paper, we provide evidence of whether child spacing affects the future success of children. As an exogenous … births did not exceed 24 months. The rule had a much larger effect on the birth spacing behavior for native-born mothers …