Ferrie, Joseph P.; Goldin, Claudia; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
the preschool and school-aged children of working women during WWII. It remains, to this day, the only example in US … increasing the labor supply of mothers during WWII. Our information is at the city or town level and includes war contracts, the … size of and expenditures on the childcare program, and the "reserve labor force" of mothers as of 1939. We find that the …