When estimating the determinants of child care participation, the simultaneity in mothers' decision to work and in the … care use accounting for the endogeneity of mothers' labor supply by applying an instrumental variables approach. This … strongly connected to mothers' decision to work after childbirth and vice versa. Based on the German Socio-economic Panel …

studies the impact of the substantial change in Germany’s parental leave system on maternal employment. The aim of the reform … benefits to estimate the impact of the reform. I incorporated the mother’s decision to substitute her care time with the public … after the reform implementation. Only for high-income mothers, the reform produced a significant decrease in the employment …

applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment among lower-SES families. The treatment increases lower-SES mothers' full …-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers' earnings by 22%. The effect on full …

applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment among lower-SES families. The treatment increases lower-SES mothers' full …-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers' earnings by 22%. The effect on full …

applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment among lower-SES families. The treatment increases lower-SES mothers' full …-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers' earnings by 22%. The effect on full …

choices led mothers to take, on average, 1-2 months less of leave. This decrease in leave duration, however, was not … few mothers indicate that they would start working if better access to formal childcare were available. Switching to the … more flexible leave system had a minimal effect on the labor market choices of mothers, as the majority continue to …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of the extended parental leave in the return to work for mothers of … suggest that the right to long and paid leaves gives mothers the opportunity to remain at home with the child at a lower cost …

The paper documents employment and wage gaps, which arise between mothers and childless women, for a set of 28 European …

mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies …