for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market … gender equality. Proponents of extending parental leave rights for mothers in terms of duration, benefits, and job protection …Labor market policies for expecting and new mothers emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century. The main motivation …

benefits also reduce take-up of paid leave by mothers, lower the chances of having further children, and have no impact on …

This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … childcare availability has positive and significant effects on both mothers' working status and children's language test scores …. The effects are stronger when the degree of rationing is high and for low educated mothers and children living in lower …

outcomes, childcare choices, and children's development. We examine a German reform from 2013 which introduced a home care …, we show that the reform reduced mothers' likelihood to return to work within three years by only 1.4 percentage points …, but decreased childcare enrolment for one- and two-year olds by 5 percentage points. We find no effect on children's skill …

outcomes, childcare choices, and children's development. We examine a German reform from 2013 which introduced a home care …, we show that the reform reduced mothers' likelihood to return to work within three years by only 1.4 percentage points …, but decreased childcare enrolment for one- and two-year olds by 5 percentage points. We find no effect on children's skill …

implementation of the insurance plan, and that both mothers and fathers received higher benefits. For children, using both survey data …-experimental design with survey data, we find that mothers spent on average 10 additional days with their newborn following the … development. Effects are concentrated among families of mothers with a post-secondary education. These results suggest that while …

Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and … national basis. This chapter reviews various types of leave policies available for working mothers (or parents) across … countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …

the fact that only mothers whose child is born in or after July 2015 are eligible for the new part-time PL option in a … Difference-in-Differences strategy. We find that the policy increased the probability that high income mothers return to work …

-in-differences methodology, we find that the labor market participation rates of women with children decreased after the introduction of the … benefit compared to that of childless women. The labor force participation rate of mothers showed a drop of 2-3 percentage …