, stereotypes, and the unequal distribution of housework and childcare responsibilities persist. Lifetime events such as marriage …

being hindered by a lack of affordable childcare services in the country? This paper exploits the joint variations in … estimate the elasticity of maternal employment to preschool access. The analysis finds that an additional public preschool per …

Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing … latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey spanning the early to mid-2010s. Addressing endogeneity issues … with a regression discontinuity estimator based on children's birth months, the paper finds a sizable effect of childcare …

at minimum wage. If they must also pay for childcare, having all adults working can cause losses of up to 30 percent … the lowest quintile. Vouchers for private childcare have been adopted by some municipalities in Poland to counter unmet … demand for public nurseries. A 75 percent subsidy of typical childcare costs would restore the financial viability of low …

of supply and demand effects have contributed to this stagnation. The main supply side factors are rising household … that draw in female workers have expanded least, so that changes in the sectoral structure of employment alone would have …

Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence … overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … percent of inequality in Senegal. The authors uncover the fact that household structure and organization are key correlates of …

-savings for remittance transactions. It also doubled the nonfarm self-employment rate, from 3.4 to 6.4 percent, and reduced the …

transfer delivery mechanisms on education, health, and household welfare outcomes. The two-year pilot program randomly … health check-ups. Compared with the control group, cash transfers improve children's education and health and household …. Cash transfers to fathers also yield relatively more household investment in livestock, cash crops, and improved housing …