College-educated mothers spend substantially more time in intensive childcare than less educated mothers despite their … childcare more. We find that among all mothers, spending time in childcare is associated with higher positive feelings compared … negative feelings during intensive childcare than other mothers. Moreover, college-educated mothers report substantially fewer …

-age children, and coincides with increased time spent engaging in childcare. Decomposing the gender gap in summer work …--and corresponding lapses in implicit childcare--provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment … interruptions across job types defined by sector and occupation, we find large contributions from both gender differences in job …

penalties -- are shaped by the work behavior of peers' parents during adolescence. Leveraging quasi-random variation in the … fraction of peers with working parents across cohorts within schools, we find that greater exposure to working mothers during … shaping child-related gender gaps in the labor market …

This paper examines the multigenerational impact of children and whether the public provision of formal childcare … earnings of mothers and employment of grandmothers. Studying a universal childcare program in Quebec, we find formal childcare … and the pre-policy supply of informal childcare by grandmothers …

of gender conservativeness of the people around them. Exposure to information on peer beliefs leads to a shift in …

different regions of the world. The fraction of gender inequality explained by child penalties varies systematically with … minuscule fraction of gender inequality. But as economies develop -- incomes rise and the labor market transitions from … gender inequality. Because parenthood is often tied to marriage, we also investigate the existence of marriage penalties in …

supply of high-skilled native women, has helped narrow the gender earnings gap in high-paying powered occupations, and that …