Perinatal depression (PND) is a major depressive episode during pregnancy or within 4
weeks after childbirth up to a year. Risk factors for PND include stressful life events, history …

For decades, national paid maternity leave policies of 12 weeks or more have been
established in every industrialized country except the United States. Despite women …

Do family policies reduce gender inequality in the labor market? We contribute to this debate
by investigating the joint impact of parental leave and childcare, using administrative data …

By the early 21st century, most high-income countries have put into effect a host of generous
and virtually gender-neutral parental leave policies and family benefits, with the multiple …

We define work–life flexibility as employment-scheduling practices that are designed to give
employees greater control over when, where, how much, or how continuously work is done …

Many skilled professional occupations are characterized by an early period of intensive skill
accumulation and career establishment. Examples include law firm associates, surgical …

Background: US maternal and infant mortality rates constitute an important public health
problem, because these rates surpass those in developed countries and are characterized …

This article advances a couple-level framework to examine how parenthood shapes within-
family gender inequality by education in three countries that vary in their normative and …

This analysis examines whether the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emergency sick
leave provision of the bipartisan Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) reduced …

Maternity and family leave policies enable mothers to take time off work to prepare for and
recover from childbirth and to care for their new children. While there is substantial variation …