Expanding public or publicly subsidized childcare has been a top social policy priority in many industrialized … this paper, we analyze the causal effect of one of the largest expansions of subsidized childcare for children up to three … temporal variation in the expansion of publicly subsidized childcare triggered by two comprehensive childcare policy reforms …

of children. This effect is more pronounced for daughters and for children who live close to their parents. Further …

that center-based care reduces the overall time that parents spend with the enrolled child, but has only small negative …

Most literature on the relationship between childcare availability and maternal labour force participation examines … childcare for preschool aged children. Yet families must continue to arrange childcare once their children enter primary school … highlight how childcare availability shapes maternal employment patterns well after school entry. …

income replacement for each parent if, and only if, both parents work 30 hours per week. Thus, it explicitly addresses … such a policy, employers’ norms and workplace culture as well as the supply of high-quality childcare must catch-up with …