that working women with children aged 0-5 are those who say they find balancing work and family more difficult during COVID …Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the … to our empirical estimates, changes to the amount of housework done by women during the emergency do not seem to depend …

We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members’ labor supply and child outcomes by …

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 …

motherhood exerts an effect on attitudes towards gender norms, and more specifically, attitudes towards the impact of women … non-mothers who work and mothers who do not work are more likely to agree that pre-school children suffer if mothers work …, which we proxy as having more traditional views. However, this is not the case when women experience both working and …

employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of … progression toward more egalitarian attitudes in the pre-pandemic period. Attitudes by women are not affected. These findings …

exploit the setting of the German reunification. A state socialist country, East Germany strongly encouraged mothers to …, we document a strong asymmetry in the persistence of the culture in which women were raised. Whereas East German female … 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 …

around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal … that expanded paid leave from 30 weeks in 1989 to 52 weeks in 1993. The representation of women in top positions has only … their male counterparts. The reforms did not affect, and possibly decreased, the probability for women to be at the top over …

grandmothers’ cohort and mothers’ likelihood to work while having a small child (0 to 5 years old) relative to similar women … norm variable is taken from a question on whether “men should have more right to a job than women when jobs are scarce” and … represents the average extent of disagreement (on a scale 1 to 5) of women belonging to the “grandmothers” cohort. We address the …

labor market. The model can generate and explain the different dynamics of women’s earnings after childbirth documented in …, and working mothers are on a path toward a high-wage equilibrium, slow convergence can permanently lose earnings. We use … maternal leave exacerbates the shock which pleads against long leaves. Similarly, cash transfers to mothers via the income …