The Infallible Life Plan: My Decision to Leave Residency

Paternity leave in medical residency.

Maternity and medical leave during residency: Time to standardize?☆

I was full of dread the day I went to the pediatrician for my newborn son’s three-week checkup. The following week I was to return to my clinical duties as a dermatology resident, just 4 weeks post partum. The pediatrician learned of this and strongly urged me to take more time off. She insisted that 6 weeks is the minimum time needed to establish breast-feeding, strengthen my mother-baby bond,...

'Why do my patients leave me?'.

My Life

Determinants of young Europeans’ decision to leave the parental household

The analysis of household formation has found limited space in the economic literature until very recently, and the articles in other social sciences are fairly descriptive in nature. None of all these attempt cross-country quantitative analyses and only few estimate dynamic models within a country, while many are cross-sectional studies of living arrangements. Since there are large differences...