marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood. …

We provide some of the first empirical evidence of maternal and fetal health effects of working during pregnancy by … using a unique dataset from the New Jersey Department of Health that includes information not only on pregnancy and birth …. We find robust evidence that working in a relatively more strenuous job during pregnancy raises the likelihood of fetal …

trimester of pregnancy. The negative impact on cognitive skills and development is concentrated on lower-income children and …

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 …