welfare state arrangements for disadvantaged mothers with young children in Germany. …-income, first-time mothers. A major goal of the program is to improve the participants’ economic self-sufficiency and family …

focus is on child care for children aged 0-3, because this is a critical period for working mothers and their children and …This paper discusses several approaches to examining the relationship between child care and mothers' labor supply. The … because most European and American households with children aged 3-5 already use child care centers. The paper provides data …

-education women. This leads to lower reading scores among children, primarily as a result of mothers shifting away from formal care … employment and fertility among women, as well as long-run cognitive outcomes among children. A structural life-cycle model of …-scale child care reform, which provided generous cash transfers to mothers who did not use formal child care facilities. Combining …