childcare for preschool aged children. Yet families must continue to arrange childcare once their children enter primary school …, particularly in countries where the school day ends at lunchtime. In this paper we examine the case of Germany, a country that has … moved from an exclusively half-day school system to one where formal afternoon care is increasingly available. We estimate …

two or more kids. Heterogeneity analysis suggests no causal effects of fertility on female employment among mothers with … less than college education and older mothers (born before 1978). Furthermore, we find evidence for the interaction of … estimates for highly educated mothers and for mothers born after 1977. …

This paper uses administrative data to investigate how a change in pension wealth affects a mother’s employment …

countries. It is supposed to increase fertility, promote children's development and enhance mothers' labor market attachment. In … years among industrialized countries on the employment of mothers in Germany. Identification is based on spatial and … slots by one percentage point increases mothers' labor market participation rate by 0.2 percentage points. The overall …

This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal …

reveal an intra-household transmission of communicable diseases: mothers experience 4–8% more infections and 2–4% more …, mothers benefit from reductions in obesity and anaemia, and heterogeneity analyses show a lower prevalence of mood- and stress …-related disorders for multiparous and older mothers. The policy implications of our findings extend beyond the health impacts of early …

' locus of control. The obtained results show that children whose mothers experience an involuntary job loss are more likely …

decreases the time mothers spend in the labor mar- ket. Few studies on lower-income countries, in which low household wealth …

leave policies. We analyze the impact of a major parental leave reform on mothers' long-term earnings. The 2007 German … policy on long-run earnings of mothers, we use a difference-in-difference approach that compares labor market outcomes of … mothers who gave birth just before and right after the reform and nets out seasonal effects by including the year before …