physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a …-term physical and mental health and subjective well-being. There is weak, but not robust, evidence for increased satisfaction with …

mothers are perceived as still having worse health at older ages, even if their objective health status has recovered. These … boys are also more likely to have private health insurance, which suggests more concerned mothers …We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of …

This paper examines the effect of e-waste dumping sites on early child health. We focus on two major dumping sites in … West Africa, in Ghana and Nigeria. We observe children born before and after the creation of these dumps, and estimate a … mortality, for children living in the proximity of the site. Event studies suggest that the negative effects emerge 2-3 years …

In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental … with children in Germany. Our study confirms that the monetary cost of children is substantial and increases with parental … sizeable for families with children …

that the child penalty is higher for young, low-wage mothers and those taking longer leaves. It is larger in firms with …

Parents make important choices for their children in many areas of life, yet the empirical literature on this topic is … scarce. We study parents’ competitiveness choices for their children by combining two large-scale artefactual field … about their children’s competitiveness preferences. Third, parents’ choices predict children's later-in-life educational …

exploit the setting of the German reunification. A state socialist country, East Germany strongly encouraged mothers to … show that even a partial exposure to East German colleagues induces “native” West German mothers to accelerate their return …

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 …

children’s skills. This paper estimates causal effects of severe parental health shocks on child socio-emotional skills …Child skills are shaped by parental investments. Health shocks to parents can affect these investments and their … rationalized with shocks having a delayed impact on children’s skills …

show that, in terms of health setbacks, children exposed in utero only to the former suffered as much as those exposed to … stronger crop failure effect for children born in isolated areas …