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

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

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

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

This paper quantifies the contributions of social norms and economic incentives to the 350-hour annual gap in maternal labor supply between East and West Germany. Using a collective model of family formation and labor supply estimated on GSOEP data from 2000-2017, we find that the working-mother...

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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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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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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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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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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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Hazardous air pollutants and maternal health

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

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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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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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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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Wildfires and birth outcomes : evidence from Spain

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

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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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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 - 2026

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

Krafft, Caroline; Asʿad, Rāǧī; Avendano, Paloma; … - 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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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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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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Intergenerational effects of Turkiye's education reform on children's academic and health outcomes

Akar, Betul; Okten, Cagla - 2026

This paper examines the intergenerational effects of Turkiye's 1997 compulsory schooling reform, which increased mandatory schooling from five to eight years. Drawing on a novel dataset from the nationally representative 2022 Turkish Child Survey, we use a regression discontinuity design (RDD)...

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Can maternal education improve children's dietary diversity and nutritional outcomes? : evidence from the 2003 education reform in Kenya

Khan, Sana; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Ferrone, Lucia - 2026

Education is widely associated with better health outcomes, but whether this relationship is causal remains unclear, especially in low-income countries. This study examines the causal effect of maternal education on child nutrition and dietary diversity in Kenya. Using a fuzzy regression...

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Public attitudes towards mothers' part-time work : a survey experiment on costs of reduced working hours

Davoli, Maddalena; Backes-Gellner, Uschi - 2026

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Motherhood and constraints during job search

Philippe, Arnaud; Skandalis, Daphné - 2026

Why do women's labor earnings drop upon motherhood? We shed new light on this question by analyzing the changes in job search behavior associated with motherhood. We exploit data on the job applications sent on a popular online platform linked with administrative registers for 350,000...

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Motherhood and constraints during job search

Philippe, Arnaud; Skandalis, Daphne - 2026

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Workplace flexibility and the motherhood penalty : evidence from the diffusion of remote work

Basso, Gaetano; De Paola, Maria; Lattanzio, Salvatore; … - 2026

We study whether workplace flexibility is a key driver of the motherhood penalty. Exploiting the sharp and heterogeneous diffusion of work-from-home (WFH) contracts after COVID-19 in a difference-in-differences framework, we combine administrative data on the universe of Italian WFH contracts...

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Workplace flexibility and the motherhood penalty : evidence from the diffusion of remote work

Basso, Gaetano; De Paola, Maria; Lattanzio, Salvatore; … - 2026

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The food and nutrition assistance landscape : fiscal year 2025 annual report

Hodges, Leslie; Jones, Jordan W. - 2026

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Unconditional cash transfers and maternal labor supply : evidence from Bavaria's family allowance

Böhme, Fabian - 2026 - Preliminary Draft

This paper investigates the labor supply effects of unconditional cash transfers aimed at young families, using the Bavarian Family Allowance (Familiengeld ), introduced in 2018. The policy provides € 250-300 monthly to families with children aged 13-36 months regardless of employment status...

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Firms as intermediaries in social policy : evidence from Japan’s 2005 employer mandate for work-childcare support

Fukai, Taiyo; Hara, Hiromi - 2026

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Effect of remote work on the child penalty : evidence from the United States

Gulek, Ahmet; Langer, Christina - 2026

We study the effect of the post-COVID expansion of remote work on the child penalty. Our empirical design proceeds in three steps: using pseudo-panels to estimate child penalties across occupations, exploiting cross-occupational variation in remote work adoption, and using synthetic controls to...

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Parental preferences and the motherhood penalty

Carnicelli, Lauro; Morando, Greta - 2026

The motherhood penalty is a major source of gender inequality, yet it varies substantially across women. We exploit the random gender of the firstborn in Finnish register data to study how parental preferences for family time interact with occupational constraints to generate this heterogeneity....

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On penalties and premiums : the impact of childbirth on the well-being and work of parents

Koebel, Kourtney; Pollenne, Daisy - 2026

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Nutzung der Elternzeit durch Mütter und Väter : Ergebnisse einer Auswertung des Mikrozensus 2022

Geis-Thöne, Wido - 2026 - Stand: Juni 2026

Während in den letzten Jahren viel über das Elterngeld diskutiert wurde, fristet die Elternzeit in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung ein Schattendasein. Dies geht teilweise darauf zurück, dass über ihre Inanspruchnahme sehr wenig bekannt ist. Daher wurden die Mikrodaten des Mikrozensus 2022 zu...

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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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