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 …

diploma, all with respect to parenthood. Few get children while enrolled in higher education, nevertheless one fourth of … female university students in Sweden has children. In Sweden as in many other countries enrollment periods have been … achievement we find that students with children seem to be somewhat more efficient in their studies among those who have graduated …

of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different … data suggest that the introduction of joint custody led to a long-run increase in marriage rates. There is no convincing … dampened the persistent downturn in marriage. Our empirical evidence is fully consistent with the supposition that these …

This paper estimates the impact of the extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey from 5 to 8 years on the marriage … new education policy reduces the probability of marriage and giving birth for teenage women substantially: the probability … of marriage by age 16 is reduced by 44 percent and the probability of giving birth by age 17 falls by 36 percent. The …

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

use Austrian birth register data covering all births between 1984 and 2007 and find that a mother's marriage is associated … 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 …

'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. …

countries, little is known about the long-term consequences for the mothers and children involved. In this study, I use a sample …—to study the causal effect of C-sections on child health and on the health, fertility and labor market responses for mothers …