's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive e.ects on children's health and human …

's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to instrument fertility will tend to be … the mother's health and health-related behaviours and exposures are systematically positively associated with the … a sample of women who do not use IVF. The positive selection of women into twinning implies that estimates of impacts of …

births of 63%. This narrowed differences in health between IVF and non- IVF births by 53%, and differences in the labor … market outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers it also narrowed the gap in maternal health …

data from hospital administrative records between 2003 and 2012, babies' health is found to be strongly pro-cyclical. A one … 1.4%, and a 0.1% decrease in foetal growth. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health … evidence of three channels that can explain the overall negative effect of unemployment on new-born health: maternal stress …

children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn …

children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our …Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn …

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However … recent work shows positive selection of women into twin birth. Thus, while OLS estimates will tend to be downward biased …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited …

variation in the crisis, focusing on women who were already pregnant when the downturn began. We find that the number of girls …