subsidized child care in Spain in the early 1990s, addressing the impact on mothers' short- and long-run employment outcomes (up … worked (9%) of mothers with age-eligible (3-year-old) children, and that these effects persisted over time. Heterogeneity … matters. While persistence is strong among mothers with a high-school degree, the effects of the program on maternal …

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

effects: high educated non-mothers are persuaded by the informational treatments to increase their intended use of formal … child care (and to pay more); whereas low educated non-mothers to reduce their intended labor supply. These findings are …

child care on maternal employment, despite a strong correlation. Instead of increasing mothers' labor supply, the new …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …