phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age … and perform poorer in the math test, with stronger effects for (female) offspring born to very young mothers …

other, expansion of early child care can tap labour market potentials beyond those of currently underemployed mothers …. Moreover, conditional effects show that especially better educated and non-single mothers respond to the reform. …

We analyse the effect of a mandatory kindergarten for four-year-old children on mothers' labour supply in Switzerland …. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find an increase of mothers' labour force participation. Since kindergarten … is not a full-day care, the results suggest a rise in the share of part-time working mothers. Furthermore, the reform …