countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child … development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …

forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes … fertility and labor supply, supporting women's overall health. …We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly …

Using data on American women and the health status of their children, this paper studies the effect of remote work on … female earnings. Instrumental variables estimates, which exploit a temporary child health shock as exogenous variation in the …

This paper examines empirically whether midwifes, as an integral part of the health and family planning programs in …

health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …

the mother's health and health-related behaviours and exposures are systematically positively associated with the … fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to instrument fertility will tend to be …

births of 63%. This narrowed differences in health between IVF and non- IVF births by 53%, and differences in the labor … market outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers it also narrowed the gap in maternal health …

data from hospital administrative records between 2003 and 2012, babies' health is found to be strongly pro-cyclical. A one … 1.4%, and a 0.1% decrease in foetal growth. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health … evidence of three channels that can explain the overall negative effect of unemployment on new-born health: maternal stress …

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited …