health and child outcomes, we leverage longitudinal microdata from Indonesia to estimate individual fixed effects models. Our … health appears to be more linked to child schooling outcomes, especially for girls. When both parents are in poor health, the …

the second child reacts strongly to these policy changes. The share of employed mothers sharply declined in 1990 by 19 …

Women tend to experience substantial declines in their labor income after their first child is born, while men do not …. Do such "child penalties" also exist in the political arena? Using extensive administrative data from Norway and an event …-study methodology, we find that women drop out of local politics to a larger extent than men after their first child is born. Parenthood …

This paper provides new evidence on the acquisition and persistence of child gender preference among immigrant … evidence that paternal preferences could be more to blame for son preference than maternal. Fourth, child gender preferences …

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … more recent period, having a female first child still raises the likelihood of living without a father, but is instead … have a female first child have significantly higher fertility and are more likely to be living without a father (though not …

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … more recent period, having a female first child still raises the likelihood of living without a father, but is instead … have a female first child have significantly higher fertility and are more likely to be living without a father (though not …

labor markets on child nutrition (the standardized height for age). Our study differs from previous research in two … effect of maternal work on child nutrition in India. The quantile estimates provide evidence of large heterogeneity in the … effect of mother's work on child nutrition. In particular, the results suggest that it is children in the lower tail of the …