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 …

adverse effect for children of low-educated mothers on human capital investments and labor-market attachment in early … of home production. Sons of low-educated mothers, on the other hand, were less likely to be employed. The results suggest …

heterogeneous response incentives. We find that the reform speeds up the labor market return of both groups of mothers after benefit … effect are changes in social norms and mothers' preferences for economic independence. …

Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a … costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to become mothers and return to the labor force rapidly. Using a sharp … patterns. First, medium-run effects on mothers' employment probability are positive, significant and large, for some subgroups …

options like Head Start might lead mothers to reallocate time between employment, child care, and other activities. Using the … Start increases short-run employment and wage earnings of single mothers. The increase in labor supply does not appear to …

mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies …

the fact that only mothers whose child is born in or after July 2015 are eligible for the new part-time PL option in a … Difference-in-Differences strategy. We find that the policy increased the probability that high income mothers return to work …