effect on employment of mothers who used to work outside the home before giving birth and might prevent some mothers from … payments in households where the annual income of the higher-earning exceeded their threshold encouraged mothers to start ….Furthermore, we find that some mothers who started working as part-time workers because of the cuts in CB used to work full …

We estimate the causal effects of childcare availability on the maternal employment rate using prefecture panel data … is uncorrelated with maternal employment when prefecture fixed effects are controlled. Evidence suggests that this is … childcare availability would have increased the maternal employment rate by two percentage points, which accounts for about 30 …

effect on employment of mothers who used to work outside the home before giving birth and might prevent some mothers from … payments in households where the annual income of the higher-earning exceeded their threshold encouraged mothers to start …, we find that some mothers who started working as part-time workers because of the cuts in CB used to work full …