eligibility for extended parental leave and geographical variation in formal childcare. We find that estimated treatment effects … on long-term child outcomes differ substantially according to the availability of formal childcare and the mother … capital outcomes only if the reform induces a replacement of informal childcare with maternal care. We conclude that care …

investments in childcare: Mothers who take extended maternity leave in quasi-experimental settings are more likely to face mental … imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant … differential help-seeking behavior across the sexes or postpartum depression. Instead, they are related to mothers' higher …

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 … suggest that the pandemic not only affected the short-term allocation of housework and childcare, but also reversed recent …

Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the … effect of COVID-19 on the working arrangements, housework and childcare of couples where both partners work. ties. According … to our empirical estimates, changes to the amount of housework done by women during the emergency do not seem to depend …

In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We … that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in Norway. Our results reveal a significant increase in the overall employment … of mothers in the target group, but only weak evidence of an increase in contracted hours of work. However, both …

are predictive of labor supply intentions under different policy scenarios related to childcare availability and quality …

productive if they choose to become mothers. Even though motherhood temporarily handicaps their productivity, it is exactly this … cost of motherhood that signals the mothers' intrinsic high productivity. I explicitly refer to the academic labor market …

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 …

women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation …Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other …. To further explore this channel, we design a randomized survey experiment, in which 1500 Italian women aged 20 to 40 are …