employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women … lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns … with cross-state differences in the timing of school closures, is concentrated among mothers with young school-age children …

and find that a ten-percentage-point increase in the initial conational share lowers employment rates by 3.1 percentage … effect on wages conditional on employment. The employment effect appears to be due to the effect of differences in the …

exploit the setting of the German reunification. A state socialist country, East Germany strongly encouraged mothers to … reunification, we show that even a partial exposure to East German colleagues induces "native" West German mothers to accelerate …

Does employment during motherhood change peoples preferences? We study whether the experience of employment during …’s employment on children’s wellbeing (which proxy traditional gender attitudes). Drawing on a large, representative and … longitudinal data and an instrumental variable (IV) strategy that exploits a Bartik instrument for employment, we find that, that …

the motherhood employment gap across 186 European NUTS2 regions (over 29 countries) for the 2002-2016 period. The gender … liberalization when mothers were 20 years old. We find a robust positive association between progressive beliefs among the … grandmothers' cohort and mothers' likelihood to work while having a small child (0 to 5 years old) relative to similar women …

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

This paper investigates the impact of workplace breastfeeding laws on the labor supply of mothers. We exploit a unique … maternal employment by 4% when children are in breastfeeding age. …

by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to …We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for …

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 …

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 … time. -- employment ; mothers ; parental leave ; East Germany ; child care …