-run and long-term effects of childbirth on married women’s employment and working hours. Estimation results show that these …

generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity … regression discontinuity design, we estimate policy impacts for up to 5 years after childbirth and find significant and striking … increases in working hours. Second, the probability of job continuity rises significantly, i.e. mothers return to their pre-childbirth …

important than non-economic returns, and introduction of a tax-credit for volunteering-related childcare expenses would …

The effects of childbirth on future labor market outcomes are a key issue for policy discussion. This paper implements … very strong negative employment effects after childbirth. Although the employment loss is reduced over the first five years … following childbirth, it does not level off to zero. The employment loss is lower for mothers with a university degree. It is …

Children affect the after-birth labor force participation of women in two ways. Directly, the time spent in child-care …