Although a large body of literature has argued that motherhood has a profound and long-lasting negative effect on the … employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … family and female employment in Mongolia in 2016. We examine the availability of childcare, social norms and attitudes …

pregnant while attending school. Using panel data in Madagascar, we analyze the impact of teenage pregnancy on young women …

affects child welfare. Access to free or subsidized public childcare can increase women's labor force participation and …Engaging in paid work is generally difficult for women in developing countries. Many women work unpaid in family … countries, vocational training or grants for starting a business have been effective policy tools for supporting women's paid …

Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the … effect of COVID-19 on the working arrangements, housework and childcare of couples where both partners work. ties. According … to our empirical estimates, changes to the amount of housework done by women during the emergency do not seem to depend …

that most of the additional workload associated to COVID-19 falls on women while childcare activities are more equally … childcare and working arrangements is more symmetric, with both women and men spending less time with their children if they …Evidence from past economic crises indicates that recessions often affect men's and women's employment differently …

The time women allocate to child care varies appreciably according to personal and labour market characteristics. Of … particular note is the finding that better educated women spend more time in most forms of child care activities than their less … possible justification for subsidising the education of women to a greater extent than the subsidy to men's education. It is …

We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico … observe small or null impacts on women's health from increasing sanctions on illegal abortion. We find some evidence to …

question has important implications for policy measures that could be taken to improve women's lives. …

policy research on women's employment in India. The discussion is situated in the normative construction of motherhood and … young children is an increasingly important issue in women's employment decisions, in a context where formal childcare is … practically nonexistent. These results have significant implications for policy to raise women's labor force participation in …