The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of the extended parental leave in the return to work for mothers of … characteristics and fertility history from different countries and, consequently, under different parental leave regulations. Results … suggest that the right to long and paid leaves gives mothers the opportunity to remain at home with the child at a lower cost …

study investigates the well-being gap between mothers and fathers, revealing that childbirth significantly influences … parents' subjective well-being. Mothers tend to experience a longer-lasting positive effect, peaking during the newborn stage … the child's first year. The findings also indicate that the well-being gap between mothers and fathers has widened over …

benefits also reduce take-up of paid leave by mothers, lower the chances of having further children, and have no impact on …

Using rich longitudinal register data from Denmark, we show that the allocation of mothers between the competitive …, mothers – post first childbirth – are increasingly switching from the private to the public sector and are also less likely to …

no effects on second-order fertility. While the reform slightly changes the selection of mothers, this has little impact …

demonstrate that the biases stem from conventional event studies pooling together first-time mothers of all ages, without … interpretation differ significantly depending on maternal age at birth. We show that younger first-time mothers experience larger …