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Mothers' work, reconciliation issues, and fertility desires : evidence from the evaluation of a program to support mothers

Del Boca, Daniela; Favero, Luca; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2026

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Mothers' work, reconciliation issues, and fertility desires evidence from the evaluation of a program to support mothers

Del Boca, Daniela; Favaro, Luca; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2025

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Mothers' work, reconciliation issues, andfertility desires evidence from the evaluation of a program to support mothers

Del Boca, Daniela; Favero, Luca; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2025

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Inflation and diets among poor mothers in Egypt

Hashad, Reem; Jovanovic, Nina; Karachiwalla, Naureen; … - 2025

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A breakfast revolution for mothers? : introducing Kellogg's Corn Flakes to the Swedish market : 1929-1939

O'Hagan, Lauren Alex - 2024

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Causal effects of breastfeeding promotion on child health : understanding the role of nutrition

Brenøe, Anne Ardila; Stearns, Jenna; Martin, Richard M. - 2026

Using data from the only large-scale randomized controlled trial promoting prolonged exclusive breastfeeding, we study how the intervention affected child health and why. The intervention increased weight-for-age in infancy, with effects persisting through adolescence. We show that treated...

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The labor market returns to delaying pregnancy

Gallen, Yana; Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; Johansen, Eva Rye - 2026

We study the labor market impact of unplanned pregnancy among women using long-acting reversible contraceptives to delay pregnancy. While most women successfully delay, some have unplanned pregnancies, providing quasi-random variation in pregnancy timing. Analyzing linked health and labor market...

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The labor market returns to delaying pregnancy

Gallen, Yana; Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; Johansen, Eva Rye - 2026

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Education as a shield against the adverse shock of motherhood : gender, parenthood and overeducation among highly and mid-educated British workers

Ortiz, Luis; McGuinness, Séamus; Nussio, Benedetta - 2026

This research improves our understanding of overeducation by highlighting its risks among middle-educated workers, especially the specific risk that motherhood may pose for job mismatch among them, compared to highly educated women. It employs random-effects and Heckman selection models with...

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Fathers' involvement in domestic work and mothers' employment : evidence from bunching

Akesaka, Mika; Kikuchi, Nobuyoshi - 2026

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Fathers' involvement in domestic work and mothers' employment : evidence from bunching

Akesaka, Mika; Kikuchi, Nobuyoshi - 2026

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Political stressors and birth outcomes : evidence from the 2016 U.S. presidential election

Golberstein, Ezra; Guth, Daniel; Slusky, David - 2026

We study political shocks as potential birth outcomes stressors, specifically the unexpected result of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. We investigate this two-sided shock using an innovative data linkage: Colorado voter registrations and birth certificates, matched by sex, birth year, and...

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The intergenerational costs of crime : evidence from maternal victimization in Brazil

Menezes, Lívia; Koppensteiner, Martin - 2026

We study the causal effect of maternal criminal victimization on child health using linked police reports and birth records from Brazil. Focusing on robbery and theft - everyday crimes not involving physical injury - we show that victimization during pregnancy increases low birthweight by 6.9...

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Maternal Life Satisfaction and Child Development from Toddlerhood to Adolescence

Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Jessen, Jonas; Spiess, C. Katharina - 2026

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Maternal Life Satisfaction and Child Development from Toddlerhood to Adolescence

Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Jessen, Jonas; Spiess, C. Katharina - 2023

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Mothers, schools, and the making of American human capital mobility

Althoff, Lukas; Brookes Gray, Harriet; Reichardt, Hugo - 2026 - Original version: March 2025, this version: Januar 2026

How did the US become a land of opportunity? Previous historical research on intergenerational mobility has focused on father-son income correlations, masking the role of mothers. We introduce a new mobility measure that incorporates both parents’ human capital, develop a latent variable...

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Navigating motherhood : endogenous penalties and career choice

Coskun, Sena; Dalgic, Husnu; Özdemir, Yasemin - 2026

We document that women strategically sort into "family-friendly" sectors characterized by lower returns to experience but lower per-child penalties before the birth of their first child. This anticipatory sorting represents an ex-ante cost of motherhood that is entirely missed by conventional...

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Navigating motherhood : endogenous penalties and career choice

Coskun, Sena; Dalgic, Husnu; Özdemir, Yasemin - 2025

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More Hours, More Work : Head Start Expansions Boost Maternal Employment

Gibbs, Chloe; Kose, Esra; Rosales-Rueda, Maria F. - 2026

Women's employment remains highly sensitive to childcare constraints, making childcare availability a critical lever for supporting mothers' labor force attachment. We study the effects of expanded full-day programming in Head Start, using the 2016 federal funding initiative that targeted...

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More hours, more work : head start expansions boost maternal employment

Gibbs, Chloe; Kose, Esra; Rosales-Rueda, Maria F. - 2026

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The impact of women's empowerment on infant and young child feeding practices : key dimensions and mediating channel in Nepal

Khan, Sana; Ferrone, Lucia - 2026

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Birth order and infant health : evidence from maternal immunisation in New Zealand

Schober, Thomas - 2026

Immunisation during pregnancy is a vital strategy to protect infants from infectious diseases in their first months of life. Drawing on administrative data from New Zealand, I analyse the relationship between birth order, maternal vaccination against pertussis and influenza, and subsequent...

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The effect of longer maternal care on children's occupation choices

Sinani, Sofiana - 2026

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The labor market and health impacts of reducing cesarean section deliveries

Miller, Sarah; Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya; … - 2026

We study an intervention that reduced cesarean deliveries among low-risk first-time mothers, using California birth records linked to earnings data. Exposed mothers were 8% less likely to have a c-section, with no adverse health effects. We find suggestive evidence that they were more likely to...

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The Labor Market and Health Impacts of Reducing Cesarean Section Deliveries

Miller, Sarah; Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya; … - 2025

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The labor market and health impacts of reducing cesarean section deliveries

Miller, Sarah; Persson, Petra; Rossin-Slater, Maya; … - 2025

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Supporting mothers back to work : experimental evidence on employment, fertility, and child outcomes

Del Boca, Daniela; Favero, Luca; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2026

Many advanced economies face persistently low fertility alongside rapid population ageing, raising concerns about economic sustainability and demographic balance. Addressing these challenges requires both sustained labor market participation among the workingage population and conditions that...

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Raising Children Alone in Latin America and the Caribbean : Strong Mothers and Weak Social Assistance

Cuesta, Laura; De Hoop, Jacobus; Nopo, Hugo - 2026

Studies across countries find that single-mother households are socioeconomically disadvantaged. However, the heterogeneity of these households is regularly overlooked in the literature, with lone-mother households (with only one female adult) frequently undifferentiated from households in which...

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Norms behind closed doors : a field experiment on gender norm misperceptions and maternal employment decisions in couples

Boltz, Marie; Bustelo, Monserrat; Diaz Escobar, Ana Maria; … - 2026

This paper studies whether gender gaps in women's labor-market outcomes are sustained by systematic misperceptions about social and spousal support for maternal employment. Using a representative sample of 1,732 cohabiting couples with young children in Bogotá, we show that while support for...

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Health and well-being of parents caring for children with disabilities : a crossnational comparative study

Sherafat, Shamim; Buber-Ennser, Isabella; Di Giulio, Paola - 2026

The health and well-being of parents raising children with disabilities is increasingly gaining importance in demographic and public health research. Caregiving responsibilities associated with childhood disability may create substantial emotional, physical, and social strain, potentially...

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Economic incentives or social norms? : labor supply differentials between east and west german mothers

Chabé-Ferret, Bastien; Iftikhar, Zainab; Park, JungJae - 2026

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Economic incentives or social norms? : labor supply differentials between East and West German mothers

Chabé-Ferret, Bastien; Iftikhar, Zainab; Park, JungJae - 2026

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Economic incentives or social norms? : labor supply differentials between East and West German mothers

Chabé-Ferret, Bastien; Iftikhar, Zainab; Park, JungJae - 2026

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The motherhood penalty in financial resources for retirement : a life course perspective on the accumulation of public pension wealth and personal wealth in East and West Germany

Möhring, Katja; Overweg, Clara; Weiland, Andreas P. - 2026

This study investigates the motherhood penalty on personal net wealth and public pension wealth, focusing on women born between 1937 and 1989. Expanding upon previous research, we (a) contrast the impact of motherhood on public pension wealth and net wealth, (b) adopt a dynamic perspective by...

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Parental leave quotas and workplace spillovers

Ahlzén, Malin Tallås - 2026

This paper studies how parental leave quotas may foster a more gender-equal division of parental responsibilities by increasing fathers' uptake of leave beyond the reserved amount. Specifically, the paper examines whether the introduction and expansion of 30-days parental leave quotas in Sweden...

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Wildfires and birth outcomes : evidence from Spain

Conte Keivabu, Risto; Rubio-Cabañez, Maria - 2026

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Work requirements in subsidized child care and maternal labor supply

Van Kippersluis, Hans; Zhang, Hongliang - 2026

This paper investigates how tightening work requirements in subsidized child care affects parental employment. Using Dutch administrative data, we examine a 2012 reform that capped subsidized child care hours at 140% of the hours worked by the lesser-working parent. We identify affected...

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Hazardous air pollutants and maternal health

Guignet, Dennis; Bui, Linda T. M.; Fehlman, Caroline; … - 2026 - Last revised: March 22, 2026

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The complementary role of information and contraceptive access in teen pregnancy

Kaytan, Sevin; Piedra-Bonilla, Stwarth; Zohar, Tom - 2026

We investigate how information frictions affect the efficacy of contraception provision programs. We study a Costa Rican initiative that combined free access to long-acting reversible contraceptives and a tailored information campaign to correct for baseline misinformation. Using administrative...

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The complementary role of information and contraceptive access in teen pregnancy

Kaytan, Sevin; Piedra-Bonilla, Stwarth; Zohar, Tom - 2025

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The impact of early childhood care and education on maternal employment in Jordan

Krafft, Caroline; Asʿad, Rāǧī; Avendano, Paloma; … - 2026

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Parental leave policy and gender attitudes

Bargain, Olivier; Le Vot, Julie; Hérault, Nicolas - 2026

This paper examines whether family policy can shape gender attitudes. We exploit the introduction of a paid parental leave (PPL) scheme in Australia in 2011 and use panel data to study changes in women's gender attitudes around childbirth. Prior to the reform, childbirth is associated with a...

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Kindergarten and career comebacks for mothers : is access to public school enough?

Wikle, Jocelyn; Wilson, Riley - 2026

Over the last 70 years, there has been a dramatic increase in female labor supply. However, gender gaps in employment trajectories remain, in part because the role of childrearing has largely fallen upon women. Providing more publicly funded childcare could relax these constraints, which may...

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Motherhood and Labor Market Trajectories in Türkiye

Baez, Javier; Garriga, Santiago; Perova, Elizaveta; … - 2026

This study estimates the child penalty in Türkiye, defined as the negative impact of having a child on mothers' labor market outcomes. Utilizing the Survey of Income and Living Conditions data from 2006 to 2023, the analysis reveals a significant child penalty, which varies across regions...

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Mother and Child Nutrition in Afghanistan : Qualitative Exploration of Behavioral and Normative Barriers

2026

Malnutrition remains a critical challenge in Afghanistan, particularly among pregnant and breastfeeding women (PBW) and children under five, with millions projected to suffer from acute malnutrition in 2026. This diagnostic study, based on qualitative fieldwork across Kabul, Faryab, and...

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Marriage and child penalties : evidence from South Korea

Kim, MinSub - 2026

This paper documents marriage and child penalties in Korea, where the female labor supply remains constrained by marriage and childbirth despite the urgent need to promote the female labor supply in the face of the world's most rapidly aging population. Using an event-study approach and...

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Timeout : the role of family-friendly policies in business start-up among mothers

Markowska, Magdalena; Ahl, Helene; Naldi, Lucia - 2023

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Maternal life satisfaction and child development from toddlerhood to adolescence

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2023

In this paper we analyse the association between maternal well-being and child develop- ment at different ages. We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) which captures maternal life satisfaction and numerous cognitive and non-cognitive child development outcomes. We identify a...

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Maternal life satisfaction and child development from toddlerhood to adolescence

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2023

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Mother's effective literacy status : implications on child health

Garg, Surabhi; Mishra, Srijit - 2025

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SOEP-Core v39 - CHILDL : dataset on children in the SOEP, including "mother & child", "parent & child", and "childhood" questionnaires

Mertinkat, Paulina; Nebelin, Jana - 2025

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Parental earnings trajectories around childbirth in Japan : evidence from local tax records

Fukai, Taiyo; Kondo, Ayako - 2025

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Origin, norms, and the motherhood penalty

Åslund, Olof; Karimi, Arizo; Sundberg, Anton - 2025

We present evidence that shared institutional and economic contexts may be at least as important as culturally rooted gender equality norms for the size of the motherhood penalty. Our study covers child migrants and children of immigrants in Sweden, and while the results point to a moderate but...

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The undercounting of child-mother births

Chauvin, Juan Pablo; Rubião, Rafael; Talamas Marcos, … - 2025

Accurate demographic data are essential for effective policy design, yet private costs may deter individuals from truthfully reporting sensitive information. We examine this market failure and its implications in the context of child motherhood. Using administrative records from Brazil, Mexico,...

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The interplay of poverty and employment trajectories in couples around the transition to parenthood in Germany

Siegert, Christina - 2025

The transition to parenthood is a critical period that exacerbates gendered economic inequality, with mothers more likely than their partners to experience employment disruptions and income losses. This study examines individual poverty risk among partnered indivduals (N=1,237) in Germany from a...

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Association between malaria prophylaxis stock-outs, and birth and maternal outcomes in Zimbabwe

Chari, Abigail - 2025

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Career break around childbirth : the role of individual preferences and social norms

Di Gioacchino, Debora; Ghignoni, Emanuela; … - 2025

The prolonged career break around childbirth is one of the reasons behind large motherhood penalties in terms of pay and employment opportunities. We aim to understand what is driving the duration of career break in Italy, where it often remains longer than the five-month obligatory maternity...

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Bridging the gap? : the moderating role of non-parental childcare use in the gap in maternal employment between immigrants and non-immigrants

Wu, Mengyao; Loi, Silvia; Lee, D. Susie; Rey Poveda, … - 2025

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Maternal education, economic empowerment and infant mortality in Burkina Faso

Barro, Lamissa; Tiendrebeogo, Aïcha; Nana, Issa; … - 2025

Education levels in Burkina Faso, especially among women, remain low despite efforts made by government authorities and development partners to implement priority area 4 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This situation presents difficulties for women in terms of their being...

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The gender pension gap grows the more children a woman has

Haan, Peter; Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Schmauk, Sarah; … - 2025

The gender pension gap, the difference in pension entitlements between men and women, is 32 percent for 60-yearolds according to data from the German Pension Insurance (Deutsche Rentenversicherung). In addition, there is a considerable motherhood pension gap: Statutory pension entitlements for...

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The short- and long-term effects of family-friendly policies on mothers' employment

Quinto, Alicia de; González, Libertad - 2025

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The short- and long-term effects of family-friendly policies on mothers' employment

Quinto, Alicia de; González, Libertad - 2024

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When mothers out-earn fathers : effects on fathers' decisions to take paternity and parental leave

Biasi, Paola; De Paola, Maria; Gioia, Francesca - 2025

This study investigates the influence of the male breadwinner norm on fathers' decisions regarding childcare responsibilities. We study the complex interplay between economic factors and gender norms in shaping the division of household labor within families by analyzing the impact a...

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Motherhood on campus : timing childbirth during university studies

Bach, Nicoline Josephine; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz; … - 2025

This paper examines the relationship between the timing of childbirth and the motherhood penalty among high-skilled Danish women. Earlier studies typically find that delaying first childbirth increases female earnings. However, postponing the first birth may also have negative fertility...

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Motherhood on campus : timing childbirth during university studies

Bach, Nicoline Josephine; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz; … - 2024

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