Parental leave and child care are important instruments of family policies to improve work– family balance. This paper … studies the impact of the substantial change in Germany’s parental leave system on maternal employment. The aim of the reform … was to decrease birth-related maternal employment breaks by providing more generous parental benefits for a shorter period …

This article studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market …

changes to the family's budget constraint on parents' working hours. Labor supply is theoretically expected to increase for … Netherlands, where children start school (kindergarten) for approximately 20 hours a week in the month that they turn 4. Using …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with …

We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by …

We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by …

changes to the family's budget constraint on parents' working hours. Labor supply is theoretically expected to increase for … Netherlands, where children start school (kindergarten) for approximately 20 hours a week in the month that they turn 4. Using …