We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are...

We study the causal effect of temporary employment on fertility and infant health outcomes by exploiting exogenous variation in the availability of temporary contracts. The Spanish 1984 reform led to an extensive liberalisation in the use of fix-term contracts, increasing job insecurity and...