Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and … national basis. This chapter reviews various types of leave policies available for working mothers (or parents) across … development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …

a child, mothers have a higher likelihood for engaging in informal jobs and less possibility of being promoted if they … work in the formal sector. Moreover, social norms towards gender roles lead mothers to devote more time to housework and …

over 70,000 individuals in the Synthetic SIPP Beta to examine the earnings gap between mothers and non-mothers over the … similar patterns, with experience gaps between mothers and non-mothers generally increasing over the lifecycle and de … that this gap between mothers and non-mothers declines from around $220,000 for women born in the late 1940s to around $160 …

Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers' labor force … quality of jobs mothers find by estimating the causal effect of a school schedule reform in Chile. Combining plausibly … exogenous temporal and spatial variations in school schedules with a panel of individual mothers' employment between 2002 and …

's labor market outcomes, including their total annual wages, household income, and poverty status. The effects of childcare …

by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to … conditions, which is consistent with mothers specialising in childcare provision compared to fathers. …