children's health at birth, subsequent maternal health and fertility, and longterm human capital outcomes of children. Our … children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not … evidence-based. We evaluate a substantial maternity leave extension in Austria, which increased mandatory leave prior to birth …

also be explained by purposive choice. If birth month of a child is at least partially chosen by the parents then, by …

accumulation, wage losses for mothers remained stable in this first period. Conversely, we can no longer detect motherhood wage …Women-friendly policies may have perverse effects on the wages of employed women and mothers in particular. Yet few … in the motherhood wage penalty over time. We compare two sweeps of reforms inspired by opposite principles, one allowing …

Increasing mothers’ labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a … costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to become mothers and return to the labor force rapidly. Using a sharp … patterns. First, medium-run effects on mothers’ employment probability are positive, significant and large, for some subgroups …

Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a … costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to become mothers and return to the labor force rapidly. Using a sharp … patterns. First, medium-run effects on mothers' employment probability are positive, significant and large, for some subgroups …

This study analyzes the effect of fathers' parental leave-taking on the time fathers spend with their children and on … mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies … on within-father differences in leave-taking for first and higher order children that were triggered by a policy reform …

This study analyzes the effect of fathers' parental leave-taking on the time fathers spend with their children and on … mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies … on within-father differences in leave-taking for first and higher order children that were triggered by a policy reform …

This paper shows that the time spent on parental leave affects mothers' careers several years after childbirth. It also … of mothers returning to work before their youngest child turns four. This further translates to increased representation … of employed mothers in high-skilled occupations and increases the average occupation wage of the affected mothers six to …