We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the … staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare … facilities in the year of birth of the first child reduces the child penalty. The availability of childcare increases maternal …

This paper assesses the impact of a large expansion of public childcare in Germany on wage inequality. Exploiting … regional variation in childcare supply over the 1990s, I show that in regions with stronger increases in childcare, wage … half of the wage distribution and qualitatively similar for full- and part-time workers. Larger expansions in childcare …