This paper examines the impact of actual subsidy receipt of single mothers on their joint employment and child care … type of care chosen. Results indicate that single mothers are highly responsive to child care subsidies by increasing their … employment while moving from parental and relative care to center care in the process …

Maternity leaves can affect mothers' and infants' welfare if they first affect the amount of time working women stay at … and expansion of job-protected maternity leave in Canada. The substantial variation in leave entitlements across mothers … of 17-18 weeks do not increase the time mothers spend at home. The physical demands of birth and private arrangements …

examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following … weekly work hours of employed mothers of one-to-three year-old children by 6 to 9% and that their wage incomes may have risen …

). Respondents in the NLSY were aged 21 to 29 in 1986; thus our sample consists of children of relatively young mothers. We show that … for this group the impact of maternal labor supply depends upon when it occurs. Maternal employment is found to have a …

effects on labor supply in comparison groups. Employment effects of school reopenings are concentrated among mothers of older … proxy for in-person attendance at US K-12 schools using smartphone data from Safegraph and measure female employment, hours … associated with significant increases in employment and hours among married women with school-aged children, with no measurable …

teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is … her friends' mothers' choices when she was a teenager, and the interaction between the two. The empirical salience of this … distant she is (in terms of working hours) from the friends' mothers …

production for boys is more adversely affected by a decrease in the mother's time input as a result of increasing employment …'s employment during her children's childhood has an asymmetric effect on the educational achievement of her own sons and daughters … about the implications of these asymmetric effects on the mothers' labor supply decisions and find supporting evidence in …

maternal employment during a child's first three and first 15 years on that child's grade point average in 9th grade. We … address the endogeneity of employment by including a rich set of household control variables, instrumenting for employment … maternal employment has a positive effect on children's academic performance in all specifications, particularly when women …

subsidy and the effects of subsidy receipt on employment, school attendance, job search, and welfare participation. We analyze … subsidy receipt as exogenous show an effect of subsidy receipt of about 13 percentage points on employment. Two stage least …