-low fertility and female labor force participation rates. This paper analyzes the effects of a large-scale provision of publicly …-targeting of this child-care expansion, our estimates show that the policy led to a sizable increase in employment (8%), and hours …

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 …

provision of formal childcare lessens the earnings and employment impacts of children. Our analyses notably incorporate the role … of grandparents as informal providers of childcare. We find that the arrival of a firstborn reduces the employment and … thought. Studying the implementation of a universal childcare program in the province of Quebec, we find that formal childcare …

fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment …

Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility … transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition … to analyze the driving forces of fertility transitions across low- and middle-income countries. Our results confirm that …

This paper investigates the role of childcare provided by grandparents for the fertility decisions of their offspring … informal childcare for the next generation.Our results show that one additional grandparent available in the early child …-bearing years increases by about five percent the number of children. We show that the fertility effects of delayed retirement are …

In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal … feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … fertility of the childless and highly educated women …

eligibility for extended parental leave and geographical variation in formal childcare. We find that estimated treatment effects … on long-term child outcomes differ substantially according to the availability of formal childcare and the mother … human capital outcomes only if the reform induces a replacement of informal child-care with maternal care. We conclude that …

The cost of childcare has a significant impact on the decision of parents particularly mothers to work. Prior to the … introduction of subsidies for formal childcare in Ireland in 2019 through the National Childcare Scheme (NCS), the cost of full …-time centre-based childcare was among the most expensive in the OECD. Doorley et al. (2021) show that the introduction of the …