the increased demands of housework, childcare and home-schooling. Much of the additional burden has been shouldered by … pronounced during the second wave, it was still higher than pre-COVID-19. The time spent by women on housework, childcare, and …

the increased demands of housework, childcare and home-schooling. Much of the additional burden has been shouldered by … pronounced during the second wave, it was still higher than pre-COVID-19. The time spent by women on housework, childcare, and …

Our study explores the impact of selection criteria on the costs and benefits of early childcare for mothers … municipalities in assigning childcare slots. In Italy, only around 13% of the demand for public childcare coverage is met, and the … number of applications exceeds the number of places in childcare services in all regions. In conditions of excess demand …

childcare. Much of the additional burden has been shouldered by women. Yet, the rise in remote working also has the potential to …

In the traditional models of female labour supply formal childcare is assumed to be provided by the market. This is not … grandparents? unobserved preferences by instrumenting grandparents? help. We find that having grandparents helping with childcare …

exposed to two informational treatments on the positive consequences of formal childcare on children future educational …

Childcare arrangements are key in women's ability to juggle motherhood and working outside the home. As such, the study … of the access to childcare and its use is of great policy relevance. We focus on a particular kind of informal childcare …, the one provided by grandparents. Empirically, assessing the effect of grandparental childcare is not an easy task due to …