In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We … that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in Norway. Our results reveal a significant increase in the overall employment …

We develop a model to study the impact on gender gaps in participation and wages of a liquidity constraint that … gender gaps in the labour market. In this framework, an extension of paid maternity leave duration has ambiguous effects on … gender inequality. In contrast, child care subsidies, which require higher taxes, and loans, which do not, unambiguously …

substantially improves intra-household gender equality in terms of child care duties and earnings …

and promotions. No reform affected fathers’ pay or the gender pay gaps between mothers and their male colleagues and …

This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal … the pandemic. Using data on gender role attitudes from 2008 through 2021, we find that fathers’ egalitarian attitudes … suggest that the pandemic not only affected the short-term allocation of housework and childcare, but also reversed recent …

effect of COVID-19 on the working arrangements, housework and childcare of couples where both partners work. ties. According … more time on housework than before. The link between time devoted to childcare and working arrangements is more symmetric …

, and coincides with increased time spent engaging in childcare. Decomposing the gender gap in summer work interruptions … and gender differences within jobs in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Summer childcare constraints may … lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns …

are predictive of labor supply intentions under different policy scenarios related to childcare availability and quality …

There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum's Global …

period from June to August 2020, we investigate the opposing claims of widening/closing the gender gap in parental childcare … couples’ childcare division and by considering the prepandemic division rather than providing merely snapshots during lockdown … months. Starting from a fairly “traditional” prepandemic childcare division, the lockdown stimulus was not nearly strong …