Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers’ labor force … participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the … quality of jobs mothers find by estimating the causal effect of a school schedule reform in Chile. Combining plausibly …

Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and … development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …

This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United … counties in the U.S. experienced a Baby Boom following the war, we find that the in- crease in fertility was lower in high … fertility, we provide evidence that county male casualties are positively related to 1950s female employment and household …

Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing … regression discontinuity estimator based on children’s birth months, we find a sizable effect of childcare attendance on women …’s labor market outcomes, including their total annual wages, household income, and poverty status. The effects of childcare …

true for college graduates, who tend to have more successful businesses. Access to childcare may also affect their labor … appears that, in response to fewer childcare options, self-employed mothers away from their birth-place work fewer hours …

This paper contributes to the debate on the revision of the Barcelona targets on childcare, as promoted by the European … Commission in 2022, that aims to provide childcare for children below the age of 3. Using EUROLAB, a structural model of labour … alternative scenarios of formal childcare policies in European countries with very low child care provision for children below 3 …

the increase in the fertility rate (quantity) and the decrease in the educational outcome of children (quality), is highly …

This paper examines fertility and labor supply responses to a French policy reform that consisted in conditioning the …, the paper finds that restricting family allowance eligibility criteria decreases fertility. The results also highlight … supply. Auxiliary regressions show that at least part of the decline in fertility is due to timing effects, as the fertility …