policy research on women's employment in India. The discussion is situated in the normative construction of motherhood and … young children is an increasingly important issue in women's employment decisions, in a context where formal childcare is … practically nonexistent. These results have significant implications for policy to raise women's labor force participation in …

1,000 children increases the work participation of mothers of preschool age eligible children by 11-16 percent from the …At 50.9 percent, female labor force participation in Indonesia is far below the regional average of 60.8 percent. Is it … being hindered by a lack of affordable childcare services in the country? This paper exploits the joint variations in …

effects of childcare attendance differ by women's characteristics and are particularly strong for younger, more educated women …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 …

India suffers from a high maternal and infant mortality rate, especially in rural areas, where poor women do not … technology to help Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHAs) improve their care for pregnant women and their newborns at the …

cited determinants, the poorest, least-educated mothers and their children in Barisal have better health outcomes than the …

This article investigates the effect increasing secondary education opportunities has on teenage fertility in Brazil … between 1997 and 2009, the analysis shows an important role of secondary school availability on underage fertility. An …

This paper analyzes the incentives to labor supply faced by families, particularly mothers, with young children in the … context of a recently introduced fertility promotion benefit in Poland. The paper is based on an adapted version of the … at minimum wage. If they must also pay for childcare, having all adults working can cause losses of up to 30 percent …

This paper examines the effect of fertility on parental labor force participation in a developing country in the … Balkans, with particular attention to the intervening role of childcare provided by grandparents in extended families. To … address the potential endogeneity in the fertility decision, the analysis exploits the Albanian parental preference for having …