as childcare and leave policies interaction. The findings from the fixed effects model reveal that childcare coverage for … gap in employment. The impact of the leaves depends, however, on childcare availability: long maternity leaves combined … with high childcare coverage lead to greater employment gap than when the coverage is low. The results do not prove that …

Previous studies report a range of estimates for the response of female labor supply and childcare attendance to … childcare prices. We shed new light on these questions using a policy reform that raises the price of public daycare. After the …

benefit from help with childcare since grandmothers are less likely to be employed after their child's job displacement and …

open questions who responds to and who benefits from public investments into early childcare. We use the introduction of …

We study the effect of institutional childcare on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the … staggered opening of childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare … facilities in the year of birth of the first child reduces the child penalty. The availability of childcare increases maternal …