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 …

I study the effect of parental leave duration on maternal health in the short-to medium-run
leveraging variation in parental leave duration induced by an Austrian policy reform in the …

Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on
mental health equality. Parenthood imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers …

This chapter reviews the literature on the causal effects of policies on fertility. It focuses on
evidence from experiments and quasi-experiments in low fertility contexts, including studies …

Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central
objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of …

Building on earlier work that shows that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has a
substantial positive effect on maternal labor supply, we show that labor supply effects are …

Switzerland mandated a 14-week paid maternity leave in 2005 when many firms already
offered a similar benefit. While the mandate had only small and temporary effects on labor …

This paper estimates the causal effect of education-oriented vs. care-oriented preschools on
child development. We use a unique quasi-experiment from Japan that exploits plausibly …

Maternity leave policies are designed to safeguard the health of pregnant workers and their
unborn children. We evaluate a maternity leave extension in Austria which increased …

We study the impacts of a policy designed to reward mothers who stay at home rather than
join the labor force when their children are under age three. We use regional and over time …