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Maternity leave
Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022
Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...
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Family Planning and Women's and Children's Health : Long Term Consequences of an Outreach Program in Matlab, Bangladesh
Joshi, Shareen - 2012
The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106285
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Womb at Work : The Missing Impact of Maternal Employment on Newborn Health
Chuard, Caroline - 2018
Parental leave policies across the globe have become much more generous than they used to be. This is also true for prenatal maternal leave. While this may be costly in the short run, little is known about the effect of maternal employment during pregnancy on newborn health. In this paper, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909848
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The effects of gender-specific local labor demand on birth and later outcomes
Akesaka, Mika; Kikuchi, Nobuyoshi - 2021
We examine the effects of local labor market conditions during early pregnancy on birth and later outcomes. Using a longitudinal survey of newborns in Japan, we find that improvements in employment opportunities increase the probability of low birth weight, attributable to shortened gestation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698388
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Family planning and women's and children's health : long term consequences of an outreach program in Matlab, Bangladesh
Joshi, Shareen; Schultz, T. Paul - 2012
The paper analyzes the impact of an experimental maternal and child health and family-planning program that was implemented in Matlab, Bangladesh in 1977. Village data from 1974, 1982 and 1996 suggest that program villages experienced extra declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537579
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2020
The consequences of early motherhood for the offspring are severely understudied, especially in low- and middle …. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419034
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Work disability after motherhood and how paternity leave can help
Fontenay, Sébastien; Tojerow, Ilan - 2020
We study how childbirth increases the likelihood of young, working mothers to claim disability insurance and how paternity leave could ease this effect. Our event study analysis uses Belgian data to show that the incidence rate of disability across gender only diverges after first-time...
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Perez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
Early motherhood remains a widespread phenomenon in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While the consequences of … early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026021
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Maternal age and offspring human capital in India
Pérez-Alvarez, Marcello; Favara, Marta - 2019
Early motherhood remains a widespread phenomenon in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). While the consequences of … early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012037965
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Womb at work : the missing impact of maternal employment on newborn health
Chuard, Caroline - 2018 - This version: October 2018
Parental leave policies across the globe have become much more generous than they used to be. This is also true for prenatal maternal leave. While this may be costly in the short run, little is known about the effect of maternal employment during pregnancy on newborn health. In this paper, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911101