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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Does after-school care provision promote mothers’ employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of … methods, we find a positive impact of after-school care provision on mothers’ full-time employment, but a negative impact on … Switzerland. To establish exogeneity of cantonal regulations with respect to employment opportunities and preferences of the …