the importance of childcare related variables. We find working mothers do not increase their working hours when hourly … wages increase, indeed, they are more likely to reduce their hours. The major inducement for working mothers to increase … at increasing working hours amongst British mothers of pre-school children may need to focus on the quality as well as …

payments in households where the annual income of the higher-earning exceeded their threshold encouraged mothers to start …, we find that some mothers who started working as part-time workers because of the cuts in CB used to work full …-time before giving birth and quit after giving birth. Even though the mothers resumed work outside the home, expenditure on …

groups was not reduced by the 2021 CTC changes. However, we present evidence that employment was reduced among mothers with …

variation in the amount of time that mothers can remain home with a newborn child. I use this variation to estimate local … Birth cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, the OLS results show that children of working mothers score higher …. An auxiliary analysis of mechanisms finds that working mothers experience an increase in depressive symptoms, and are …

program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was … 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. …

Using rich longitudinal register data from Denmark, we show that the allocation of mothers between the competitive …, mothers – post first childbirth – are increasingly switching from the private to the public sector and are also less likely to …

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

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 …

Bar" then became mothers and never returned to work, or returned only after several years. Regression analysis is used to … compare the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were required to leave employment on marriage because of the … Marriage Bar to the educational attainment of the children of mothers who were not required to do so. It is found that the …