-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers' earnings by 22%. The effect on full … applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment among lower-SES families. The treatment increases lower-SES mothers' full …-time employment is largely driven by increased care hours provided by child care centers and fathers. Overall, the treatment …

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 … placebo treatment tests corroborate the validity of our identification strategies. -- child care ; maternal employment …

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 …

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 … adjustments are only short term following the reform. When we consider sub-groups of mothers more closely, we find substantial …

allows us to study the income effect. After the reform, mothers substantially prolonged the average period they drew an … allowance. The labor market participation of mothers of young children decreased by 6 percentage points (15%). The estimated … particularly strong among mothers with their first child (10 p.p. or 28%) and among university-educated mothers (16 p.p. or 36 …

-day kindergarten expansions were responsible for as much as 24 percent of the growth in employment of mothers with kindergarten …—through duration expansions to the kindergarten day—to better understand mothers’ and families’ constraints. We first show that mothers … performing household duties, and less time commuting with their children in the middle of the day relative to mothers with half …

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 …

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. …