any significant advantage of legal marriage among young mothers. …

the reform are consistent with hypotheses related to the improved financial situation of new mothers after the reform and …

assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live births), which tend to occur around the birth of … drawn from SHARE, we show that although marriage has a negative effect on women's employment (3.3%), its magnitude is much … marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood. …

compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the … Marriage Bar to the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were not required to do so. It is found that the … children of mothers affected by the Marriage Bar were about seven percentage points more likely to complete university …

that couples avoided divorce altogether rather than simply delaying it. While mothers extended their leave by several …

perinatally depressed mothers in rural Pakistan. It was one the largest psychotherapy interventions in the world, and the … treatment was highly successful at reducing depression. We locate mothers seven years after the end of the intervention to …

imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant … differential help-seeking behavior across the sexes or postpartum depression. Instead, they are related to mothers' higher … investments in childcare: Mothers who take extended maternity leave in quasi-experimental settings are more likely to face mental …