percentage point increase in the availability of childcare decreases mothers' self-assessed health by 0.173 points on a one to … is the transmission of infections from children to mothers. Consistent with this hypothesis, we observe that increased … childcare availability leads to mothers worrying more about their children's health. While early childcare expansions offer well …

applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment among lower-SES families. The treatment increases lower-SES mothers' full …-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers' earnings by 22%. The effect on full …

We use miscarriage as a biological shock to fertility in order to estimate the causal impact of motherhood on labor …

the first child, explain part of the so-called motherhood effect in labor market outcomes. Using data for 29 countries … marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood. …

Mothers' longer time on parental leave after having children has been proposed as one reason for remaining gender … the argument that mothers take more parental leave as a consequence of pregnancy and breastfeeding. We compare the … biological motherhood. We analyze Swedish register data on couples who had their first biological or adopted child in 1994 - 2009 …