relevance of public child care to maternal employment is inconclusive. We exploit the introduction of a legal claim to a place … on two individual-level data sets yield large and positive effects of public child care on maternal employment. A set of …

We investigate how mother’s employment during childhood affects long term child outcomes. We utilize rich longitudinal …

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 …

identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …

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 … effects on earnings and full-time employment even when the child was no longer eligible for Cash-for-Care at ages four and …

women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation … 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 …

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers … differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives particularly for low …. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences …

splitting increase fertility but reduce female employment. Second, increasing tax revenues due to the introduction of individual … taxation would increase female employment but reduce fertility. Third, revenue neutral policies such as a reform of the benefit …