This study is the first to estimate mothers' marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for job amenities directly. Its … identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can … wage. The results provide evidence that mothers are willing to sacrifice a significant fraction of their wage to reduce …

identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can … wage. The results provide evidence that mothers are willing to sacrifice a significant fraction of their wage to reduce …

intensive and extensive margin. We find that the in-work benefit for parents substantially increases working hours of mothers of … impact on employment of mothers with young children. …

intensive and extensive margin. We find that the in-work benefit for parents substantially increases working hours of mothers of … impact on employment of mothers with young children …

provide evidence that mothers substitute working time with childcare to compensate for early disadvantages. We do not find any …

decide upon the allocation of an unpaid task serving as our proxy for housework. In our gender neutral lab, we find tax …-effects only on men’s labor supply but not on women’s and no gender differences in the allocation of housework. Instead, the … overcome the gender neutral lab. …

history, one norm widely adhered to in most developed nations has been for men to be the primary breadwinner within mixed-gender … households. As women have entered the labor market in greater numbers and gender wage differentials have declined, female … differences in the ease of access to superior partnership alternatives for women who out-earn their partners. While gender …