amount of the gender income gap. In this paper we do two things. First, we use a simple household model to better understand … the potential mechanisms driving the child penalty, which include gender norms around child care, female preferences for … in heterosexual couples is primarily explained by female preferences for child care and gender norms, with a smaller …

macroeconomic model featuring heterogeneity in gender, marital status, childcare needs, and human capital. Our quantitative analysis … weakening of the gender norms that currently produce a lopsided distribution of the division of labor in home work and childcare. … employment is concentrated in heavily affected sectors such as restaurants, and due to increased childcare needs caused by school …

This paper assesses the impact of a large expansion of public childcare in Germany on wage inequality. Exploiting … regional variation in childcare supply over the 1990s, I show that in regions with stronger increases in childcare, wage … half of the wage distribution and qualitatively similar for full- and part-time workers. Larger expansions in childcare …

childcare. This trend has raised concerns, and an intense debate in several countries has focused on the effectiveness of … childcare policies. …