around every year and causes strong inflammatory responses in pregnant women. Using administrative data from Denmark, I …

spillover effect that is net of unobserved child, family and school characteristics shared by siblings. We find a modest …

This paper estimates family spillovers in high school major choice in Sweden, where admission to oversubscribed majors …-dominated program of Engineering. Back of the envelope calculations reveal these within family spillovers have sizable implications for …

labor market outcomes of children. Evaluation of three policy reforms as opposed to a single reform enables us to analyze … the reforms by comparing outcomes of children born shortly before and shortly after a change in maternity leave … support for the hypothesis that an expansion in maternity leave legislation improves children's outcomes. Given the precision …

family leaves, which is often followed by a spell of unemployment. Using a difference-in-differences methodology, we study …

We study the relationship between the length of maternity leave and the physical and psychological health of the family …. Using a reform of the parental leave scheme in Denmark that increased the number of weeks of leave with full benefit … expansions that tends to find limited effects on children's later developmental, educational, and labor market outcomes. Our …

, caregiving, and improvements in health outcomes for those likely to provide family care. Using our preferred estimation method … family members who have a disability or serious medical condition. Focusing on the most established state programs …-California and New Jersey-this paper investigates whether paid family leave (PFL) policies facilitate greater labor supply …

Maternity and family leave policies enable mothers to take time off work to prepare for and recover from childbirth and … to care for their new children. While there is substantial variation in the details of these policies around the world … introduction of short paid and unpaid leave programs can improve children's short- and long-term outcomes. Fourth, while more …