that single women become mothers of young children. We use probit regression to analyze individual data from the U …

We present the results from a natural experiment in which single mothers on welfare were stimulated to find a job. Two … municipalities in The Netherlands, a country with relatively high benefits and low incentives for single mothers to leave welfare for … work. In our analysis, we make a distinction between native and immigrant welfare recipients. For immigrant single mothers …

effects: high educated non-mothers are persuaded by the informational treatments to increase their intended use of formal … child care (and to pay more); whereas low educated non-mothers to reduce their intended labor supply. These findings are …

provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care arrangements …

concerned with how mothers’ mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not … indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found … with regard to mothers’ mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care …

Lone mothers are overrepresented among poor people in many European countries. In 1998, in Norway, a welfare reform … (2012) find a positive effect of the reform on lone mothers’ labour supply and a small reduction in poverty. Is the best … have minimized poverty among lone mothers …

This paper investigates how mothers' decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers …. Identification is based on the introduction of the Cash-for-Care program in Norway in 1998, which increased mothers' incentives to … five. However, from age six, we can no longer see any effects. The effects seem to dissipate because most mothers remained …

This study is the first to estimate mothers' marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for job amenities directly. Its … identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can … wage. The results provide evidence that mothers are willing to sacrifice a significant fraction of their wage to reduce …