This paper assesses the short-run impact of first-year maternal employment on low-income children's cognitive … Birth cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, the OLS results show that children of working mothers score higher …-of-youngest-child exemptions - as a source of quasi-experimental variation in maternal employment. The 1996 welfare reform law empowered states to …

benefits also reduce take-up of paid leave by mothers, lower the chances of having further children, and have no impact on … available to high-earning women after their first childbirth on subsequent within-couple earnings inequality. Lower benefit … amounts result in a reduced earnings gap that persists beyond the benefit period for at least nine years after the birth. The …

Expanding childcare is often considered as a suitable way to enhance employment opportunities of mothers with young … set of scenarios of increasing subsidized childcare slots and mothers' employment. For a variety of European welfare … increased mothers' employment should be well targeted. The expenditures for additional childcare slots can to a large extent be …

Children cause large earnings drops for mothers but not fathers, a stylized fact known as the "child penalty" that …

Numerous studies have investigated whether the provision and generosity of parental leave affects the employment and … economic policy questions include whether, at the macro level, female employment rates have increased due to parental leave … policies; and, at the micro level, whether the probability of returning to work and career prospects have increased for mothers …

Numerous studies have investigated whether the provision and generosity of parental leave affects the employment and … economic policy questions include whether, at the macro level, female employment rates have increased due to parental leave … policies; and, at the micro level, whether the probability of returning to work and career prospects have increased for mothers …