following childbirth, it does not level off to zero. The employment loss is lower for mothers with a university degree. It is … especially high for medium-skilled mothers with long prebirth employment experience. We find a significant reduction in the …

aspects of mother’s time preference are related to her preschool child’s ability to delay gratification. We provide a new …. We apply the procedure to a sample of 213 mother-child pairs and show that especially mother’s beta parameter is related …

mothers are higher in France than in Germany. Since the sample of mothers deciding on employment after a child is born might …

. This study presents a detailed model for the du- ration of maternity leave in which young mothers can make a transition …

duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers' post-birth long-term sickness absence over a period of three decades after … childbirth. Using a regression discontinuity design, we first show that the leave extension caused mothers to significantly delay …-term sickness absence of returned mothers who gave birth before and after the change in leave legislation. Our findings suggest that …

Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of … impatience. The child’s impatience stems from a delay of gratification experiment. Mother’s impatience has been assessed by a … choice task where the mothers faced trade-offs between a smaller-sooner and a larger-later monetary reward with a delay of …

When estimating the determinants of child care participation, the simultaneity in mothers' decision to work and in the … care use accounting for the endogeneity of mothers' labor supply by applying an instrumental variables approach. This … strongly connected to mothers' decision to work after childbirth and vice versa. Based on the German Socio-economic Panel …