In this paper, we take a multilevel perspective to investigate the role of child care in the transition to motherhood … childrearing and women's employment. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we apply a multilevel discrete time logit … model to estimate first birth risks of western German women. While we find that access to informal care arrangements …

less frequently been the subject of economists' investigations. In Germany, many women with dependent children are … involuntarily out of the labor force or in part-time employment because of family constraints (e.g., due to lack of available and … involuntary familyrelated non-participation and part-time employment on mothers' life satisfaction. Controlling for unobserved …

decreases the time mothers spend in the labor mar- ket. Few studies on lower-income countries, in which low household wealth … positive effect of an instrument-induced increase in fertility on maternal employment driven by an increase in informal work …

We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and … two or more kids. Heterogeneity analysis suggests no causal effects of fertility on female employment among mothers with … low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children …

Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are … much higher among Austrian mothers. In order to find out to what extent these differences can be attributed to differences …, differences in mothers’ employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …

family life and labor market careers for mothers. In this paper, we combine different empirical strategies to evaluate the …Parental leave and subsidized child care are prominent examples of family policies supporting the reconciliation of … employment effects of these policies for mothers in Germany. In particular we estimate a structural labor supply model and …

Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of … one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit … short school year exposure affects the timing of marriage for individuals in all secondary school tracks and shifts forward …