at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with … gender outcomes. Most estimates of the impact of parental leave entitlement on female labor market outcomes range from … childcare. …

, permitting us to construct gender- and education-specific age-wage profiles, as well as measures of life cycle inequality within …- and between-education groups and gender. Although common within-group time effects are shown to be a key driver of labor … protected from the lower skill prices of the 1970s. The gender wage gap is found to increase sharply across the distribution in …

for gender equality. Also, in a region that is aging faster than any other in the world, social trends (e.g., smaller …

, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child-care decisions within a static, unitary household model. On the …

This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability using the timing of death … of grandmothers-the primary childcare providers in Mexico-as identifying variation. I use a triple-difference to … disentangle the effect of coinhabiting grandmothers' deaths due to their impact on childcare from their effects due to alternative …

congestion policy, spatial planning and transport infrastructure provision, but are also relevant to our understanding of gender …

We investigate the role of grandparental childcare for fertility decisions of their offspring. Exploiting pension … reforms in Italy, we argue that delayed retirement represents a negative shock to the supply of informal childcare for the …