Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other … exposed to two informational treatments on the positive consequences of formal childcare on children future educational …

How parents respond to changes in the price of childcare is an important, though not fully understood, public policy … outcomes, childcare choices, and children's development. We examine a German reform from 2013 which introduced a home care … subsidy of initially 100 Euros per month for families who do not use subsidised childcare.Exploiting a date-of-birth cut …

In most OECD countries, subsidised childcare is a key instrument to support maternal employment. Using a large reform … implemented in Luxembourg in 2009, I study the effect of expanding access to subsidised childcare on childcare and employment … decisions of women in a context where childcare is universal and heavily subsidised, but bound by capacity constraints. The …

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 …

The economic literature provides mixed evidence of the relationship between local childcare provision and maternal … employment. We document this question further by focusing on the role of the provision of childcare services close to the family …'s residential location. We use a simultaneous equations approach to estimate the employment and childcare decisions of mothers of …

We consider the effects of a paid childcare leave subsidy on maternal behavior in South Korea using a difference …-in-difference design and a fertility survey with information on conception, contraception, and labor supply arrangements. Childcare … contraception to the childcare subsidy are 0.65 and -0.10, respectively. However, we do not find effects on employment arrangements …