We examine the impact of the introduction of paid maternity leave in Norway in 1977 on maternal health. Before the … months of paid leave and 12 months of unpaid leave. We combine Norwegian administrative data with survey data on the health … health. The reform improved a range of maternal Health outcomes, including BMI, blood pressure, pain, and mental health, and …

This study analyses and compares child health in Pakistan, Peru, Jamaica, Russia and South Africa. These countries … health, and in the nature and magnitude of the effects of its determinants. …

This paper investigates the changes to health care facilities and the nutritional status of Black children during the …

education-health gradient by using alternative measures of child personality available in the National Child Development Study …. We show that, alternatively to the authors conclusions, personality contributes to the education-health gradient to an …

differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …

differences in conditions: while the "education" component imposed conditions only on children of schooling age, the "health …. We show differential impacts by type of transfer: 0-5-year-old children from families receiving the "health" transfer …" transfer required regular health checkups of 0-5 year old children. The "health" transfer families were more likely to attend …

The economic and psychological literatures have demonstrated that early investments (private and public) in children … countries, implying that mothers spend less time with their children and that families rely more on external sources of …

size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in …

effect of family size on children's education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China …, where the public education system is poor. Given that our estimates of the effect of twinning on non-twins at least provide …-quality tradeoff of children in developing countries …

development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means …-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth. For children born thereafter, parental leave benefits were earnings … study the reform effects on children's language skills, motor skills, socio-emotional stability, and school readiness using …