Increasing mothers’ labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a … costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to become mothers and return to the labor force rapidly. Using a sharp … patterns. First, medium-run effects on mothers’ employment probability are positive, significant and large, for some subgroups …

Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a … costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to become mothers and return to the labor force rapidly. Using a sharp … patterns. First, medium-run effects on mothers' employment probability are positive, significant and large, for some subgroups …

income and children's home studying become insignificant if regional differences are accounted for. -- Rural electrification …

income and children's home studying become insignificant if regional differences are accounted for. -- rural electrification …

compatible with a working career, especially for mothers. We evaluate the reform using a natural experiment that compares … outcomes of parents with children born shortly after and before the coming into effect of the law, and find a significant … decrease in mothers' employment probability during the 12 months after giving birth, and an increase in mothers' employment …