Despite changing gender norms, few fathers decide to take parental leave after the birth of a child, and when they do …

fathers by about 1 hour per week. Respondents who hold more egalitarian gender beliefs, those with tertiary education, native …

few mothers indicate that they would start working if better access to formal childcare were available. Switching to the …

amount of the gender income gap. In this paper we do two things. First, we use a simple household model to better understand … the potential mechanisms driving the child penalty, which include gender norms around child care, female preferences for … in heterosexual couples is primarily explained by female preferences for child care and gender norms, with a smaller …

, who were affected by the closure of schools and institutional child-care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. By …

widening/closing the gender gap in parental childcare during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany. We consider prepandemic division … egalitarian division that, however, faded out in subsequent months. Starting from a fairly “traditional” prepandemic childcare … the necessity vanishes. Further, a shift is observed only if fathers were to some extent involved in childcare prepandemic …

satisfactory work-life balance. Childcare allows the primary caregiver, usually the mother, to take time away from childrearing for … employment. Family policies that subsidize childcare and increase its availability have different effects on female labor supply … may depend on countryspecific pre-reform female employment and earnings, and childcare availability, costs, and quality. …

-related gender inequality in earnings and (ii) assesses the impact of family policies on this inequality. We present three sets of … the 2000s. Second, we decompose overall gender inequality into child-related and child-unrelated components. Over our …-third to the increase in child-related gender inequality. Instead, a parental benefit reform in 2007 mitigated further …

In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We … that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in Norway. Our results reveal a significant increase in the overall employment …