Social protection measures can play an important part in securing livelihoods and in
mitigating short-term and long-term economic, social, and mental health impacts of the …

While workplace flexibility is perceived to be a key determinant of maternal labor supply,
less is known about fathers' demand for flexibility or about intra-household spillover effects …

Over the last two decades, numerous studies have suggested that dedicated time for parents
to be with their children in the earliest months of life offers significant benefits to child health …

Labor market policies for expecting and new mothers emerged at the turn of the nineteenth
century. The main motivation for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their …

This study aims to examine the effects of various maternity leave support on the quiet
quitting behaviors and mental health conditions of working mothers across industries during …

We examine the impact of the introduction of paid maternity leave in Norway in 1977 on
maternal health in the medium and long term. Using administrative data combined with …

By definition, aging is a natural, gradual and continuous process. On the other hand, frailty
reflects the increase in vulnerability to stressors and shortens the time without disease …

This paper investigates the health effects of the introduction of a near universal paid parental
leave (PPL) scheme in Australia, representing a natural social policy experiment. Along with …

Background Having children or being childless is associated with differences in women's
psychological wellbeing during the reproductive age period. Methods An individually …

A social epidemiologist looks at health inequalities in terms of the upstream factors that
produced them. A political sociologist sees these same inequalities as products of …