domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior …

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 …

outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers it also narrowed the gap in maternal health between …, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …

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 …

program that was administered throughout the U.S. during World War II. I begin by estimating the impact of the Lanham Act on … suggests that mothers' paid work increased substantially following the introduction of the child care program. I then study the …

. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of … mothers' labor market outcomes in the medium run, neither of benefit duration nor of job-protection duration. To understand … the relative importance (and interaction) of the two policy instruments in shaping mothers' return to work behavior, we …

women with young children are willing to work, but that women with young children and mothers who are unhappy with the … spatial barriers discourage mothers from entering employment …

force participation rate of mothers dropped by 2-3 percentage points, depending on the estimation specification, as a result …