increase to rising maternal employment. Employed mothers spend less time at home and thus less time with their children, whose … diets and physical activity may suffer. Also, children of working mothers may spend more time in the care of others, whose …

future.’ In this article, I examine trends in the employment gap between mothers and fathers of young children over the last …, the USA, the UK, and Germany. Substantial closing of the gap in the 1970s and 1980s was followed by stability since then …

months old increase the likelihood of being overweight at 3 years old, but only for children of mothers with higher levels of … mothers. Quantile regression finds that the children most impacted by maternal employment are those at the upper percentiles … pre-school children. Using data from the Infant Cohort of the Growing-Up in Ireland Survey, propensity score matching …