Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …

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 …

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 … and gender differences within jobs in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Summer childcare constraints may …

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 … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to …

the motherhood employment gap across 186 European NUTS2 regions (over 29 countries) for the 2002-2016 period. The gender … employment, suggesting that non-traditional gender norms mediate on the employment gender gap mainly via motherhood. …

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

also the employment status and conditions of their spouse. We find that couples with very different productivities have …