children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn … children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not …

children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn … children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not …

siblings from the same mother. A total of 7,496 births to 3,990 mothers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 …-partum, whether the mother breastfed, and duration of breastfeeding. Association of income outcomes with maternal pre-pregnancy … obesity was examined using Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) regression to compare across mothers and fixed effects to compare …

Maternity leave policies are designed to safeguard the health of pregnant workers and their unborn children. However … caused by work in the third trimester of pregnancy. We find no evidence for significant effects of this extension on children …'s health at birth or long-term health and labor market outcomes. Subsequent maternal health and fertility are also unaffected …