children of December-born mothers, the children of January-born mothers are more likely to have very low birthweight. We then …We study the effects of school starting age on siblings' infant health. In Spain, children born in December start … discontinuity design to compare the health at birth of the children of women born in January versus the previous December, using …

of their treatment-contingent outcomes. We use the method to study how child birth affects female labor supply in Denmark …

-cognitive child development outcomes. We identify a strong positive association between mothers' life satisfaction and their children …. Our findings suggest that mothers' life satisfaction is beneficial for their children's development at all ages and that … personality traits. We confirm our main findings with an IV estimation where we instrument contemporaneous maternal life …

. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of … mothers' labor market outcomes in the medium run, neither of benefit duration nor of job-protection duration. To understand … the relative importance (and interaction) of the two policy instruments in shaping mothers' return to work behavior, we …

. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of … mothers' labor market outcomes in the medium run, neither of benefit duration nor of job-protection duration. To understand … the relative importance (and interaction) of the two policy instruments in shaping mothers' return to work behavior, we …

Condition. The estimation results reinforce the conventional wisdom that child labor is harmful for health in the long run. The … results can be interpreted as a lower bound of the true impact since healthier children are most likely to offer themselves …

and noncognitive development is weaker, and is restricted to children of less educated mothers. We conclude that …This paper uses propensity score matching methods to investigate the relationship between breastfeeding and children … interventions which increase breastfeeding rates would improve not only children's health, but also their cognitive skills, and …

data set. In particular, this alternative estimator allows us to exploit the information on children with no siblings in … fixed effects estimation. We obtain modest but significant effects of fetal growth rate on math and reading scores, with the …