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 … was the effect of the reform’s implicit subsidy to the cost of childcare on the opportunity cost of mothers’ time. We also …

considering transitions into and out of employment, with no gender differential effect. …

We investigate gender differences across multiple dimensions after three months of the first UK lockdown of March 2020 … that, between earlier in 2020 before the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic and June 2020, women had increased childcare … and housework more than men. Neither the gender gaps in COVID-19-related health and economic concerns nor the gender gaps …

In this paper, we examine whether culture plays a role in the gender division of household labor. To explore this issue … gender division of housework may be due to cultural differences. We find that the higher the culture of gender equality in … housework and childcare as household labor. Our work is extended by examining how culture operates and is transmitted. We study …

This paper investigates the impact of attending early childcare on second generation immigrant children's cognitive … unique administrative records on the early childcare public available slots at the municipal level. Our identification … strategy exploits cross-sectional and time series variation in the provision of early childcare service across Italian …

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 investigates the impact of attending early childcare on the quality of parent–child interactions and … childcare attendance. I estimate 2SLS regression analysis and employ a difference-in-difference strategy. I use two Multiple … future research on parents’, especially mother’s, time use when their children attend early childcare. …

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 …