The cost of childcare has a significant impact on the decision of parents particularly mothers to work. Prior to the … and childcare choices of mothers. We model the joint decision of labour supply and childcare for lone and coupled mothers … of children under six. Mothers are likely to respond to the introduction of childcare subsidies in 2019 by switching from …

We examine the impact of offering full-day as a replacement for half-day kindergarten on mothers' labour supply using … absenteeism for mothers of four-year-olds. We find that this effect is driven by specific sub-groups, namely non-immigrant mothers …

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 …

We examine the effects of college costs on the labor supply of mothers. Exploiting changes in college costs after the … mothers before and after these programs were implemented. Mothers of college-age children decreased their annual hours of work … evidence that mothers changed their employment status, as most of the decrease in hours of work happened among employed mothers …

payments in households where the annual income of the higher-earning exceeded their threshold encouraged mothers to start ….Furthermore, we find that some mothers who started working as part-time workers because of the cuts in CB used to work full …-time before giving birth and quit after giving birth. Even though the mothers resumed work outside the home, expenditure on …

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

of mothers in the target group, but only weak evidence of an increase in contracted hours of work. However, both … adjustments are only short term following the reform.When we consider subgroups of mothers more closely, we find substantial … heterogeneity in the affected outcomes and the timing of these effects. In particular, when we exclude mothers on job …

of mothers working full-time has steadily increased. We provide the first empirical evidence that the increase in mothers …-run influence of the family network on mothers' labour decisions up to seven years post birth. For identification, we exploit …

mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies …