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 …

-lasting effects on fathers' involvement in childcare and housework. Effects on maternal labor supply are also significantly positive …

-lasting effects on fathers' involvement in childcare and housework. Effects on maternal labor supply are also significantly positive …

-lasting effects on fathers' involvement in childcare and housework. Effects on maternal labor supply are also significantly positive …

bucket” to compare the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and of the income-contingent tax and transfer … schedule. We set up a dynamic structural model of heterogeneous households choosing their childcare demand and maternal labor … supply. Allowing for the availability of informal childcare and for consumption of leisure, we estimate this model within the …

generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity … regression discontinuity design, we estimate policy impacts for up to 5 years after childbirth and find significant and striking … increases in working hours. Second, the probability of job continuity rises significantly, i.e. mothers return to their pre-childbirth …

generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity … regression discontinuity design, we estimate policy impacts for up to 5 years after childbirth and find significant and striking … increases in working hours. Second, the probability of job continuity rises significantly, i.e. mothers return to their pre-childbirth …

after childbirth. While the 1995 reform prolonged the allowance from 3 to 4 years, the 2008 reform allowed some parents to … on the length of women's career breaks following childbirth is substantial. …