national basis. This chapter reviews various types of leave policies available for working mothers (or parents) across … countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …

their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …

systematically positively associated with the probability of a twin birth. The estimated associations are sizeable, evident in richer …

design. The results suggest that the intervention has negligible impact on birth weight and small effects on the gestational …

effects of parental work on the weight outcomes of older children in the household. Data come from the 1979 cohort of the … kindergarten eligibility. Leveraging these insights, we develop an instrumental variables model that shows that parents' work hours … lead to larger increases in children's BMI z-scores and probabilities of being overweight and obese than those identified …

on sibling differences and (ii) reverse causality by focusing on parents' employment when children are aged 0-3. We use …This paper analyzes whether there exists a causal relationship between parental employment and children's educational … attainment. We address potential endogeneity problems due to (i) selection of parents in the labor market by estimating a model …

this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases parents' time spent looking after children and working. Using …-nuclear families with children under fifteen years of age. We find that fathers' alcohol consumption has a negative impact on their …

cross-household hetero-geneity in son preference. We find that the birth of sons rather than daughters significantlyreduces …

The impact of children's early development status on parental labor market outcomes is not well established in the …