mothers spend with their children. Since the institutional context is one in which the alternative is subsidized day care, the …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 …

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 …

local children. Reduced-form estimates offer evidence of adverse impacts almost 1.5 years after the shock: a worsening of … children's anthropometrics of 0.3 standard deviations, an increase of 15 to 20 percentage points in the incidence of infectious … diseases and an increase of roughly 7 percentage points in mortality for children under five. I also exploit intra- and inter …

provider role and women staying at home and taking care of children. The employment of mothers was not a common practice, so … there are solid employment patterns of mothers, which change across cohorts for instance resulting in more part time …

from the IDEFICS study of children aged 2-9 in 16 regions of eight European countries. Based on such data as accelerometer …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves. …

those whose mothers have less than 10 years of education. This effect is especially large for children of mothers who, in …

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 …

We analyze the timing of birth of the first three children based on German panel data (GSOEP) within a hazard rate … Geburt der ersten drei Kinder. Mit einem Random-Effects-Schätzer wird der Korrelation der einzelnen Übergänge Rechnung … getragen. Besonderes Augenmerk gilt den geschlechtsspezifischen Effekten von Humankapital - approximiert durch die …