We investigate the importance of various mechanisms by which child care policies can affect life-cycle patterns of … employment and fertility among women, as well as long-run cognitive outcomes among children. A structural life-cycle model of … employment, fertility, and child care use is estimated using Norwegian administrative data. The estimation exploits a large …

In Germany, formal child care coverage rates have increased markedly over the past few decades. The present paper is … concerned with how mothers ́mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not …. Furthermore, the effects of formal child care usage on mother-child interaction are examined. The analysis is based on data …

In Germany, formal child care coverage rates have increased markedly over the past few decades. The expansion in … health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not. Furthermore, the effects of formal child care … usage on mother-child interaction are examined. The analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the …

This paper considers the question posed by popular media, do women like doing child care more than men? Using … differences in how men and women who have done some child caregiving on the previous day feel when engaged in a set of common … daily activities. We find that both men and women enjoy their time in child caregiving, men as much, or even more so, than …

, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children …In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …, the secondary earner's labor supply and welfare. Child benefits and subsidies for external child care are more effective …

This paper investigates whether the effects of affordable and easily available public child care on fertility and … maternal employment depend on the career costs of children a woman faces. It builds on the idea that these costs vary by … concerning intensity and speed of the provision of new child care slots for under-three-year-olds. The combination of county …

Women experience significant reductions in labor market income following the birth of children, while their male … partners experience no such income drops. This "relative child penalty" has been well documented and accounts for a significant … the potential mechanisms driving the child penalty, which include gender norms around child care, female preferences for …