This paper studies the effect of child-care subsidies on parental labour supply. I use variation arising from changes … the labour force participation of parents. The variation in labour supply incentives is plausibly exogenous, since …

Does after-school care provision promote mothers’ employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of …

on children’s and parents’ outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for … paternity leave shifts the gender balance at home in a way that increases mothers’ time and/or effort spent at market work …

gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively …This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … correlated with each other, while the gender wage gap seems to be negatively correlated with these variables. The paper presents …

and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that public daycare and informal … childcare are complements. Female labor force participation declines and the response is strongest for single parents and low …Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new …