studies the impact of the substantial change in Germany’s parental leave system on maternal employment. The aim of the reform … was to decrease birth-related maternal employment breaks by providing more generous parental benefits for a shorter period … childcare slots. Overall, I did not find significant changes in maternal employment during the first three years of motherhood …

This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of employment and child care decisions of women after birth in order …'s cognitive ability. I use data from the NLSY to estimate the model. Results indicate that the effects of maternal employment and …

reasons: first, it has low rates of female employment and little formal child care provision, and second, it has undergone … of flexible, low-cost child care, could have unintended negative consequences for the employment rates of women with …

Increasing mothers’ labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a … patterns. First, medium-run effects on mothers’ employment probability are positive, significant and large, for some subgroups … ranging up to 10 per cent. The effects are driven by gains in part-time but not full-time employment. We also find significant …

Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a … patterns. First, medium-run effects on mothers' employment probability are positive, significant and large, for some subgroups … ranging up to 10 per cent. The effects are driven by gains in part-time but not full-time employment. We also find significant …

employment and child development …