—through duration expansions to the kindergarten day—to better understand mothers’ and families’ constraints. We first show that mothers … performing household duties, and less time commuting with their children in the middle of the day relative to mothers with half …-day kindergarten expansions were responsible for as much as 24 percent of the growth in employment of mothers with kindergarten …

-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 …

benefits to estimate the impact of the reform. I incorporated the mother’s decision to substitute her care time with the public … after the reform implementation. Only for high-income mothers, the reform produced a significant decrease in the employment …

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. …

domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior … show that the time allocations of women with pre-school children are highly sensitive to changes in wages and the costs of …

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 …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of the extended parental leave in the return to work for mothers of … suggest that the right to long and paid leaves gives mothers the opportunity to remain at home with the child at a lower cost …

estimate the causal impact of subsidized childcare availability on Hungarian mothers' labor market participation around the 3rd …-in-differences approach using a comparison group of mothers with children aged 4-5 to control for seasonal effects (parent selection, child …