pregnancy is seemingly beneficial for infant health, it is mostly driven by selection into coresidence. Further, we do not find … any significant advantage of legal marriage among young mothers. …Does single motherhood adversely affect infant health? This question is not easy to answer because of the endogeneity …

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

pregnancy is seemingly beneficial for infant health, it is mostly driven by selection into coresidence. Further, we do not find … any significant advantage of legal marriage among young mothers …Does single motherhood adversely affect infant health? This question is not easy to answer because of the endogeneity …

countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and … national basis. This chapter reviews various types of leave policies available for working mothers (or parents) across …

among older women. Our findings indicate that children born to kidnapped mothers are of a substantially lower birth weight … than children born to mothers who are not kidnapped. This has important implications for children's long-term development …We study the impact of bride kidnapping, a peculiar form of marriage practiced in Central Asia, on child birth weight …

reduced child support. These incentives have negative effects on children's human capital development and health, with … limit children's time spent with relatively high quality mothers, as fathers pursue joint custody in response to the policy. … health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some …

increase in fertility rates, particularly for second births among married and older women, providing suggestive evidence of an … increase in completed fertility. Second, we find an increase in overall female employment, likely due to the desire to qualify … their young children longer, the conflict between women’s dual roles as full-time worker and full-time mother is reduced …

for 17 million births in 72 countries, we demonstrate that indicators of mother's health and health-related behaviours are … and poorer countries, evident even among women who do not use IVF, and hold for numerous different measures of health. We … implies that estimates of impacts of fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to …

forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes …We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … fertility and labor supply, supporting women's overall health. …