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 … effects on older siblings and fertility decisions show that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family …

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 …

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

Twin births are often used to instrument for fertility when investigating the impact of family size on labor market … outcomes. In this paper we consider two econometric problems both related to the link between fertility treatments and multiple … births. The first is the potential for omitted variable bias caused by the fact that fertility treatments are typically …