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

effect on employment of mothers who used to work outside the home before giving birth and might prevent some mothers from … 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 …

subsidized child care in Spain in the early 1990s, addressing the impact on mothers' short- and long-run employment outcomes (up …-targeting of this child-care expansion, our estimates show that the policy led to a sizable increase in employment (8%), and hours … worked (9%) of mothers with age-eligible (3-year-old) children, and that these effects persisted over time. Heterogeneity …

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

women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation … 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 …The strong correlation between child care and maternal employment rates has led previous research to conclude that … affordable and readily available child care is a driving force both of cross-country differences in maternal employment and of …

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 …

that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in Norway. Our results reveal a significant increase in the overall employment … 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 …

fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment …