to use the mother’s life satisfaction before the birth of her child as an instrument to eliminate potential reverse …This paper investigates the association between maternal life satisfaction and the developmental functioning of two- to … three-year-old children as well as the socio-emotional behavior of five- to six-year-old children. We use data from the …

life satisfaction. Using German household panel data, we find that parental unemployment induced by plant closures and … experienced during early (0-5 years) and late (11-15 years) childhood leads to lower life satisfaction at ages 18-31. Nevertheless … after controlling for local unemployment, individual and family characteristics, parental job loss expectations, financial …

. Additional analyses point to reduced parental involvement and greater family conflict as potential mechanisms. …

. Additional analyses point to reduced parental involvement and greater family conflict as potential mechanisms. …

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

compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the … Marriage Bar to the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were not required to do so. It is found that the … children of mothers affected by the Marriage Bar were about seven percentage points more likely to complete university …