the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender … their young children longer, the conflict between women’s dual roles as full-time worker and full-time mother is reduced …

eating, and smoking). Control variables included age, notable changes in status (life events such as having children or …-related behaviors, age, children, employment, stress, and health). BMI after separation was largely comparable to BMI before starting …

We provide a theory whereby non-benevolent, self-employed households increase their expected family size to raise the … likelihood that an inside family member will be a good match at running the business. Hence, having larger family sizes raises … respondents have approximately .2 to .4 more actual and expected number of children if they are self-employed as compared to if …

programs but also led to increased use of childcare amongst children at earlier ages. Prior research investigating Quebec …’s universal highly subsidized childcare documented significant declines in a variety of developmental outcomes for all children … aged 0–4 years. However, past analysis has not explored whether these effects vary for children of different ages. In this …