Does single motherhood adversely affect infant health? This question is not easy to answer because of the endogeneity … 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. …

We study the impact of bride kidnapping, a peculiar form of marriage practiced in Central Asia, on child birth weight …. The search for a suitable mate in a kidnapped marriage is initiated by the groom, and there is typically non … among older women. Our findings indicate that children born to kidnapped mothers are of a substantially lower birth weight …

Using data from 18 countries, we investigate the effects of child marriage bans on infant and under-5 mortality. We use …," calculated based on child marriage prevalence and marriage age prior to the ban. We find that child marriage bans reduced infant … age at first marriage and birth. …

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. …

the mother's health and health-related behaviours and exposures are systematically positively associated with the … fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to instrument fertility will tend to be …

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited … impacts on women's labour supply, or on investments in children. Using data for developing countries and the United States, we …

instrument fertility will under-estimate impacts of fertility on parental investments and women's labour supply. This is …

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 …

countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child … development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …

reduced child support. These incentives have negative effects on children's human capital development and health, with … health and human capital measures. State laws vary widely in the treatment of child support under joint custody. While some … school and child health. Parental characteristics and time use data suggest that economic incentives for joint custody may …