Women face unique challenges in starting and running their own businesses and may have differing motives to men for pursuing self-employment. Previous research suggests that married women with families value the flexibility that self-employment can offer, allowing them to balance their family...

Women face unique challenges in starting and running their own businesses and may have differing motives to men for pursuing self-employment. Previous research suggests that married women with families value the flexibility that self-employment can offer, allowing them to balance their family...

I use data from the American Time Use Survey to examine how maternal employment affects when during the day mothers of pre-school-age children engage in enriching childcare and whether they adjust their schedules to spend time with their children at more-desirable times of day. I find that...