, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated … mothers are perceived as still having worse health at older ages, even if their objective health status has recovered. These … boys are also more likely to have private health insurance, which suggests more concerned mothers …

In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental … with children in Germany. Our study confirms that the monetary cost of children is substantial and increases with parental … sizeable for families with children …

causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and … penalty. Test score effects are positive for children aged 4-7 (substitution from grandparental to maternal care), and … negative for children aged 11-12 (substitution from grandparental to formal childcare) …

physical and mental health and subjective well-being. The reform extended paid leave for first-time mothers by six months to a …

of mothers in the target group, but only weak evidence of an increase in contracted hours of work. However, both … adjustments are only short term following the reform. When we consider sub-groups of mothers more closely, we find substantial … heterogeneity in the affected outcomes and the timing of these effects. In particular, when we exclude mothers on job …

non-mothers who work and mothers who do not work are more likely to agree that pre-school children suffer if mothers work …'s employment on children's wellbeing (which proxy traditional gender attitudes). Drawing on a large, representative and …

employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of …

exploit the setting of the German reunification. A state socialist country, East Germany strongly encouraged mothers to … show that even a partial exposure to East German colleagues induces “native” West German mothers to accelerate their return …

information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads …We study whether mothers’ labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … mothers to be more likely to have a paid job and to have a greater share of the total number of paid hours worked within their …

, with both women and men spending less time with their children if they continue to work away from home. Similar results … that working women with children aged 0-5 are those who say they find balancing work and family more difficult during COVID …