-scale child care reform, which provided generous cash transfers to mothers who did not use formal child care facilities. Combining …-education women. This leads to lower reading scores among children, primarily as a result of mothers shifting away from formal care …

We study the impact of public child care on mothers' career trajectories, focusing on qualitative dimensions of career … choices. Using an event study approach, we find that child care helps mothers to return to the labor market more quickly and … across mothers. …

two or more kids. Heterogeneity analysis suggests no causal effects of fertility on female employment among mothers with … less than college education and older mothers (born before 1978). Furthermore, we find evidence for the interaction of … estimates for highly educated mothers and for mothers born after 1977. …

This paper discusses several approaches to examining the relationship between child care and mothers' labor supply. The … focus is on child care for children aged 0-3, because this is a critical period for working mothers and their children and …

outcomes of mothers three years after birth by 85%. For first time mothers it also narrowed the gap in maternal health between …, reducing hospitalization costs and the foregone income of mothers and improving the long-run socioeconomic outcomes of children …

, we show that the reform reduced mothers' likelihood to return to work within three years by only 1.4 percentage points …

provide evidence that mothers substitute working time with childcare to compensate for early disadvantages. We do not find any …