meaningful and plausible. We also find evidence of an increase in prenatal care use and a decline in smoking during pregnancy …

during pregnancy on newborn health. In this paper, I exploit three sharp policy changes on the duration of paid parental … leave in Austria that strongly affected the share of mothers who work up to the 32nd week of pregnancy. I use administrative … discontinuity framework to identify the effect of prenatal employment on their offspring. Maternal employment during pregnancy with …

caused by work in the third trimester of pregnancy. We find no evidence for significant effects of this extension on children …. We conclude that, for workers without problems in pregnancy, mandatory maternity leave should not start prior to the 35th …