share of children lacking important reading skills by socio-economic background. …

This paper examines whether maternity leave policies have a causal effect on women's mental health in old age. We link … data for women aged 50 and above from eight countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to …

This paper examines whether maternity leave policies have a causal effect on women's mental health in old age. We link … data for women aged 50 and above from eight countries in the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to …

changes in the surrounding context. We find that the share of working women with children below 5 and the share of women with …

large population survey from 12 European countries. Several outcomes are studied, the proportion of children born who are … male and the sex of the first three children. The principal explanatory variables of interest are mother's education …

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