May of 2020. We document large employment losses during the lockdown, especially in "quarantined" sectors and non …-essential sectors that do not allow for remote work. Employment losses were mostly temporary, and hit lower-educated workers … work from home. The lockdown led to a large increase in childcare and housework, given the closing of schools and the …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children … in balancing family and work than parental leave payments. The welfare analysis shows that the introduction of subsidies …

This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability using the timing of death … mechanisms. Through their impact on childcare availability, grandmothers' deaths reduce mothers' employment rate by 12 percentage … of grandmothers-the primary childcare providers in Mexico-as identifying variation. I use a triple-difference to …

We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the … delayed children's entry into formal out-of-home care, we show that longer leave increases adolescent well …-being, conscientiousness and emotional stability, and reduces school absenteeism. The effects are strongest for children of mothers who would …

We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the … delayed children's entry into formal out-of-home care, we show that longer leave increases adolescent well …-being, conscientiousness and emotional stability, and reduces school absenteeism. The effects are strongest for children of mothers who would …

childcare slots. Overall, I did not find significant changes in maternal employment during the first three years of motherhood … findings suggest that the restriction in the childcare availability became an important constraint for the employment effect of …Parental leave and child care are important instruments of family policies to improve work– family balance. This paper …

We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the … staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare … facilities in the year of birth of the first child reduces the child penalty. The availability of childcare increases maternal …

This is one of only a few studies on the division of care leave for sick children between parents in Sweden and the … parents with children born in 1999-2002 to analyse two aspects of working life that may influence how parents divide care … first to attempt to examine the importance of differences in parents' work characteristics. The study uses register data for …