light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare …

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however fulltime employment rates are …, differences in mothers’ employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …

Der Beitrag evaluiert die Wirkungen eines Betreuungsgeldes in Deutschland bei gleichzeitigem Ausbau der öffentlich …

As a consequence of the rapid growth of temporary agency employment in Germany, the debate on the poor working …

all children born before (control group) and after the reform (treatment group) in cohorts of up to 27,000 newborns …

We evaluate the effect of a 2003 reform in the Spanish income tax on fertility and the employment of mothers with small … children. The reform introduced a tax credit for working mothers with children under the age of three, while also increasing … effect of the reform is ambiguous on both outcomes. We find that the combined reforms significantly increased both fertility …

consequences of family support policy and stress the need for well-defined policy goals and careful analysis ahead of any reform. …