countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child … development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …

always hold. In Botswana, children aged 6-60 months are eligible for monthly food ration provided through the health care … to explore the within and between household effect. We find that children of high birth order are likely to fare worse … than their lower birth order counterparts in nutrition. Household size is negatively associated with child health, and …

overall improvement in the health at birth (as measured by the low birth weight indicator) of the cohorts exposed to the shock … in the male cohorts. -- wage cut ; transitory income shock ; neonatal health ; selection in utero ; Romania … consequences. In this paper we consider the effect of an arguably more common and milder shock generated by a major and unexpected …