provider role and women staying at home and taking care of children. The employment of mothers was not a common practice, so … there are solid employment patterns of mothers, which change across cohorts for instance resulting in more part time …

the future of their children through the family, the labour market, and public policy actually differ? Using a number of … representative household surveys we find that the configuration of all three sources of investment and support for children differs … significantly, disadvantaged American children living in much more challenging circumstances, and the role of public policy not as …

overall, the insurance scheme seems to have contributed to improvements in stunting and mortality, at the critical ages …

from the IDEFICS study of children aged 2-9 in 16 regions of eight European countries. Based on such data as accelerometer …

This paper estimates the causal effect of being born to a teenage mother on children's outcomes, exploiting compulsory … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves. …

Background: Nutrition in utero and infancy may causally affect health and mortality at old ages. Until now, very few … individual characteristics and additional (early life) determinants of mortality. Results: Men exposed to severe famine during …. Conclusion: To our knowledge, this is the first evidence suggesting long-run effects of early nutritional stresses on mortality …

from a mother's residence to the closest hospital. We find that giving birth in a hospital leads to substantial reductions … in newborn mortality. We provide suggestive evidence that proximity to medical technologies may be an important channel …

wide variety of child, mother and family characteristics. The results suggest that limited amounts of work by mothers … children spend in enriching home environments. Some of the growth in obesity may be related to determinants of excess weight …

virtually no effect. Mothers' work interruptions of up to two months before birth have a positive effect on birth outcomes …, especially among British children. Parental behavior appears to respond to permanent family-specific unobservables and to child … their prenatal inputs across children. Evidence of equal concerns emerges also from the analysis of breastfeeding decisions …

The growth in labor market participation among women with young children has raised concerns about the potential … negative impact of the mother's absence from home on child outcomes. Recent data show that mother's time spent with children … has declined in the last decade, while the indicators of children's cognitive and noncognitive outcomes have worsened. The …