Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and … national basis. This chapter reviews various types of leave policies available for working mothers (or parents) across … development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …

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

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 …

declines in fertility of about 17%. Household data from 1996 confirm that this decline in "surviving fertility" persisted for … Bangladesh have many dimensions extending well beyond fertility reduction, which do not appear to dissipate after two decades …. -- fertility ; family planning ; health and development ; program evaluation ; Bangladesh …

Women-friendly policies may have perverse effects on the wages of employed women and mothers in particular. Yet few … accumulation, wage losses for mothers remained stable in this first period. Conversely, we can no longer detect motherhood wage … penalties for women affected by the later reform. Shorter career breaks and increased work hours may have benefited new mothers …

. High female exit rates are sometimes blamed on the inability of new mothers to survive the sustained negative productivity …