Do childcare institutions affect gender norms of individuals? I examine the introduction of childcare services and … institutions and attitudes by exploiting regional variation in the regulations and provision of childcare for school children … outside of regular school hours. My results show that the expansion of childcare for school children increases voters' support …

Do childcare institutions affect gender norms of individuals? I examine the introduction of childcare services and … institutions and attitudes by exploiting regional variation in the regulations and provision of childcare for school children … outside of regular school hours. My results show that the expansion of childcare for school children increases voters' support …

Fuelled by federal stimuli of 440 million Swiss francs, the staggered expansion of childcare in many cantons allows the … show that mothers work at higher percentage rates if they live in cantons that have expanded their childcare services more … points. The expansion of childcare particularly affected women with two children and upper-secondary education, who are …

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. …

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