The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of the extended parental leave in the return to work for mothers of … newborn children. Parental leaves have been introduced in the last 30 years in all European countries in order to extend the … characteristics and fertility history from different countries and, consequently, under different parental leave regulations. Results …

the reform are consistent with hypotheses related to the improved financial situation of new mothers after the reform and …

; education ; fertility ; children ; instrumental variables ; compulsory schooling laws …This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … schooling changes as the source of exogenous variation. We impose external estimates of the direct effect of maternal education … findings suggest that the child's probability of post compulsory education decreases when born to a teenage mother, and that …