We investigate how mother’s employment during childhood affects long term child outcomes. We utilize rich longitudinal … family types. We compare sibling differences in families where the mother enters the labor force when the children are older … family members and to measure maternal labor force participation throughout the child’s entire childhood. Our empirical …

Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the … opposite direction? This paper shows that the behavior of family structure variables over the life cycle dramatically changes … child with health problems when women enter the last decade of their reproductive life. I present a simple theoretical model …

any significant advantage of legal marriage among young mothers. …

Maternal and child health is severely impacted by adverse birth outcomes leading to a public health concern. A whole … improvements in maternal and child health, is contingent on a multiplicity of social factors, which requires redressal in …