future.’ In this article, I examine trends in the employment gap between mothers and fathers of young children over the last …

months old increase the likelihood of being overweight at 3 years old, but only for children of mothers with higher levels of … mothers. Quantile regression finds that the children most impacted by maternal employment are those at the upper percentiles … pre-school children. Using data from the Infant Cohort of the Growing-Up in Ireland Survey, propensity score matching …

Birth cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, the OLS results show that children of working mothers score higher …This paper assesses the short-run impact of first-year maternal employment on low-income children's cognitive … variation in the amount of time that mothers can remain home with a newborn child. I use this variation to estimate local …