Paid and unpaid work are still distributed very unequally between men and women in Germany. Regardless of time … work, even though almost no gainful work is done—neither by women nor men. In households with children—especially, young … children—the gender care gap is particularly wide. Since the unequal distribution of paid and unpaid work negatively affects …

services and high-skilled women respond by working more or having more children. …

children. In addition, we find evidence consistent with a channel that the policy improved the women's intrahousehold … bargaining power within the household, leading to improved parental investments for children. These study findings are also … compatible with the notion that children do better when their mothers control a more significant fraction of the family resources …

indicate that the HSAA improved children's height and weight. Furthermore, we uncover evidence supporting a mechanism whereby … care for children and improved child health. These results emphasize that children fare better when mothers control a … larger share of family resources. Policies empowering women can yield additional positive externalities for children's human …

participation affects the number of children born through decreased marital satisfaction, changed attitudes toward traditional …) on fertility among reproductive-age women. We find that IU reduces the number of children born, with more pronounced … results are robust to alternative IU measures and a series of estimation approaches that control for endogeneity. IU …