This study aims to improve the understanding of the barriers and enabling factors determining the demand for childcare … parents in Mexico City, decisions in favor of or against the use of childcare are based on: (1) the interplay between women … their ability to adapt to the childcare supply. These results highlight the relevance of: (1) promoting a more balanced …

being hindered by a lack of affordable childcare services in the country? This paper exploits the joint variations in …

Balkans, with particular attention to the intervening role of childcare provided by grandparents in extended families. To …: childcare provided by non-parental adults in extended families and greater financial costs of maintaining more children …

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women …'s outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality …. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant negative consequences of legal gender discrimination on women …

The unemployment and labor force participation gender gaps narrowed in Mexico after the 2008 global economic crisis …, women's educational attainment can offset any individual or household obstacle to women's employability, and childcare …

Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing … with a regression discontinuity estimator based on children's birth months, the paper finds a sizable effect of childcare … effects of childcare attendance differ by women's characteristics and are particularly strong for younger, more educated women …