two or more kids. Heterogeneity analysis suggests no causal effects of fertility on female employment among mothers with …We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and … low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children …

domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior …

following childbirth, it does not level off to zero. The employment loss is lower for mothers with a university degree. It is … especially high for medium-skilled mothers with long pre-birth employment experience. We find a significant reduction in the … a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for …

The substantial increase in female employment rates in Europe over the past two decades has often been linked in … maternal employment and childhood obesity using rich objective reports of various anthropometric and other measures of fatness … measures and information from nutritional diaries, we also investigate the effects of maternal employment on obesity's main …

children increases. In these advanced economies the negative impact on fertility deriving from the fact that fewer pregnancies … are needed to get a boy is more than compensated by the positive effect on fertility deriving from the greater stability …

We investigate the impact of delaying the first birth on Italian mothers' labor market outcomes around childbirth. The … effect of postponing motherhood is identified using biological fertility shocks, namely the occurrence of miscarriages and … stillbirths. Focusing on mothers' behavior around first birth our study is able to isolate the effect of motherhood postponement …

employment. …

mothers, with the influence of fathers being only indirect, via transmission of values and behaviors. There appears to be a …

assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the … policy making with the aim to reconcile the objectives of increasing female participation and fertility and reducing poverty …

This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds, controlling for a … wide variety of child, mother and family characteristics. The results suggest that limited amounts of work by mothers … amounts of employment. The negative cognitive effects occur partly because maternal labor supply reduces the time these …