childcare. This trend has raised concerns, and an intense debate in several countries has focused on the effectiveness of … childcare policies. …

as childcare and leave policies interaction. The findings from the fixed effects model reveal that childcare coverage for … gap in employment. The impact of the leaves depends, however, on childcare availability: long maternity leaves combined … with high childcare coverage lead to greater employment gap than when the coverage is low. The results do not prove that …

Previous studies report a range of estimates for the response of female labor supply and childcare attendance to … childcare prices. We shed new light on these questions using a policy reform that raises the price of public daycare. After the …

Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers' labor force … participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the … was the effect of the reform's implicit subsidy to the cost of childcare on the opportunity cost of mothers' time. We also …

open questions who responds to and who benefits from public investments into early childcare. We use the introduction of … effects of the policy differ by child age, gender and socio-economic status. Free daycare increases attendance among 2-3 year … turn, shows gender-specific effects that are in part explained by the differential choices parents of boys make compared to …

discourage the employment of women, namely the lack of work-life balance and shortages of high quality and affordable childcare … and long-term care for the elderly. Fighting discrimination and gender stereotypes is also important to allow women to …

can offer their working offspring a free, flexible, and reliable source of childcare. However, while grandparent …-provided childcare helps young parents (especially young mothers) overcome the negative effects of child rearing on their labor market …

important in explaining the division of labor in the home, often given as a cause for the gender wage gap. Indeed, as fertility … diminished leading to less division of labor in the home and a smaller gender wage disparity. Unlike other models of division of …