affects child welfare. Access to free or subsidized public childcare can increase women's labor force participation and …Engaging in paid work is generally difficult for women in developing countries. Many women work unpaid in family … countries, vocational training or grants for starting a business have been effective policy tools for supporting women's paid …

Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the … effect of COVID-19 on the working arrangements, housework and childcare of couples where both partners work. ties. According … to our empirical estimates, changes to the amount of housework done by women during the emergency do not seem to depend …

that most of the additional workload associated to COVID-19 falls on women while childcare activities are more equally … childcare and working arrangements is more symmetric, with both women and men spending less time with their children if they …Evidence from past economic crises indicates that recessions often affect men's and women's employment differently …

The time women allocate to child care varies appreciably according to personal and labour market characteristics. Of … particular note is the finding that better educated women spend more time in most forms of child care activities than their less … possible justification for subsidising the education of women to a greater extent than the subsidy to men's education. It is …

Most literature on the relationship between childcare availability and maternal labour force participation examines … childcare for preschool aged children. Yet families must continue to arrange childcare once their children enter primary school … care increases mothers’ employment rate and their working hours. To confirm the robustness of our results we conduct a …

Most literature on the relationship between childcare availability and maternal labour force participation examines … childcare for preschool aged children. Yet families must continue to arrange childcare once their children enter primary school … care increases mothers' employment rate and their working hours. To confirm the robustness of our results we conduct a …

the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves. -- teenage motherhood … on child outcomes within a plausible exogeneity framework to isolate the transmission from teen motherhood per se. Our … ; education ; fertility ; children ; instrumental variables ; compulsory schooling laws …

on child outcomes within a plausible exogeneity framework to isolate the transmission from teen motherhood per se. Our … the daughters of teenage mothers are significantly more likely to become teenage mothers themselves …

We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico … observe small or null impacts on women's health from increasing sanctions on illegal abortion. We find some evidence to …

question has important implications for policy measures that could be taken to improve women's lives. …