-scale child care reform, which provided generous cash transfers to mothers who did not use formal child care facilities. Combining …-education women. This leads to lower reading scores among children, primarily as a result of mothers shifting away from formal care …

be the dominant cultural framework in the United States. Yet there is little evidence about how mothers differ in their … child care activity mothers engage in. We document that, compared to less-educated mothers, higher educated mothers report … wellbeing among mothers across the educational distribution does not depend on the type of child care activity and suggests that …

applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment among lower-SES families. The treatment increases lower-SES mothers' full …-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers' earnings by 22%. The effect on full …

choices led mothers to take, on average, 1-2 months less of leave. This decrease in leave duration, however, was not … few mothers indicate that they would start working if better access to formal childcare were available. Switching to the … more flexible leave system had a minimal effect on the labor market choices of mothers, as the majority continue to …

We study the impact of public child care on mothers' career trajectories, focusing on qualitative dimensions of career … choices. Using an event study approach, we find that child care helps mothers to return to the labor market more quickly and … across mothers. …