Ferrie, Joseph P.; Goldin, Claudia; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
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 … programs became well-funded but were late to start, limited in scope, and incapable of greatly increasing women's employment in …