Employment among mothers has been rising in recent decades, although mothers of young children often work fewer hours … former group displaying strong approval for part-time employment among mothers and fathers of very young children and the …. However, differences in attitudes remain unexplored despite their importance for better understanding mothers' labour market …

benefits also reduce take-up of paid leave by mothers, lower the chances of having further children, and have no impact on …I use the universe of tax returns in Germany and a regression kink design to estimate the impact of the benefit amount …

quarters of birth of the children of the other mothers living in the neighbourhood as instruments are as large as estimates …A mother's decision to participate in the labour market is correlated with those of the other mothers living in the … same neighbourhood. This paper studies the extent to which this is causal. An identification problem exists because mothers …

not have children and not due to the wage penalty incurred by mothers. …We examine how much children and responsibilities related with them contribute towards the divergence of men's and …