How do parental resources early in life affect children's health and schooling outcomes? We address this question by … how additional parental time and monetary resources impacts both the existing and new child's educational and health …. The effects are prevalent primarily among children to high-income mothers. Impacts are driven by a combination of a …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

health. Using extensive information from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Children (LSAC), we contribute to the … information on children's health, family background, mothers' pre-birth work histories and mothers' health behaviours during … literature by estimating the effect of paid parental leave entitlements on child health up to age seven. Exploiting detailed …

countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …

physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a …-term physical and mental health and subjective well-being. There is weak, but not robust, evidence for increased satisfaction with …

This chapter provides an overview of the literature on child health in developed countries. I first lay out a simple … economic model of the demand for child health inputs, and discuss whether the evidence is consistent with that model. Next, two … main causes of market failure in the market for child health inputs — lack of information and externalities — are analyzed …