study tests a range of factors (marital status, physical longstanding health problems, mental health problems, children … effects are mediated primarily through subsequent maternal mental and physical health problems. …

personal care hours of mothers and fathers. Controlling for the prerecession trends, we find that the recession contributed to … recession and the jobless recovery was a move toward equity in the paid work hours of mothers and fathers, a relative increase … in the total workload of mothers, and a relative decline in their personal care and leisure time. -- Economics of Gender …

While previous studies have shown that recessions are associated with better health outcomes and behaviors, the focus … previously established counter-cyclical pattern in health and heath behaviors is held during the Great Recession. Using data from … capturing health and health behaviors, we show that the association between economic deterioration and these outcomes has …