that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in Norway. Our results reveal a significant increase in the overall employment … 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 …

-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers’ earnings by 22%. The effect on full … applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment among lower-SES families. The treatment increases lower-SES mothers’ full …-time employment is largely driven by increased care hours provided by child care centers and fathers. Overall, the treatment …

to elicit subjective expectations, and show that a mother’s decision to work is perceived to have sizable impacts on …

We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers …, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers’ chances to be at the top of their companies’ pay ranking or in leadership … and promotions. No reform affected fathers’ pay or the gender pay gaps between mothers and their male colleagues and …

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 …

We study whether mothers’ labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … 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 …

Does employment during motherhood change peoples preferences? We study whether the experience of employment during …'s employment on children's wellbeing (which proxy traditional gender attitudes). Drawing on a large, representative and … longitudinal data and an instrumental variable (IV) strategy that exploits a Bartik instrument for employment, we find that, that …

the motherhood employment gap across 186 European NUTS2 regions (over 29 countries) for the 2002-2016 period. The gender … liberalization when mothers were 20 years old. We find a robust positive association between progressive beliefs among the … grandmothers’ cohort and mothers’ likelihood to work while having a small child (0 to 5 years old) relative to similar women …

employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women … lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns … with cross-state differences in the timing of school closures, is concentrated among mothers with young school-age children …