Low female schooling attainment, early marriage, and low age at first birth are major policy concerns in developing … countries. This paper jointly estimates the determinants of educational attainment, marriage age, and age of first birth among … related outcomes simultaneously. An additional year of schooling results in a delay of marriage by 1.6 years. Marrying one …

We investigate the spillover effects of early-life medical treatments on the siblings of treated children. We use a … administrative data from Denmark, we first confirm the findings in the previous literature that children who are slightly below the … spillovers on all our measures of academic achievement. Our estimates suggest that siblings of focal children who were slightly …

Research suggests that teenage childbearing adversely affects both the outcomes of the mothers as well as those of … their children. We know that low-educated women are more likely to have a teenage birth, but does this imply that policies …

mothers who gave birth and their newborns. Applying a difference-in-differences approach to register data on all births in … Sweden over two decades, we show that the closures negatively affected the health of mothers, while effects on infant health … were small and insignificant. The adverse effects on mothers are mainly driven by crowding effects at remaining wards …

, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children … outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers it also narrowed the gap in maternal health between …