-scale child care reform, which provided generous cash transfers to mothers who did not use formal child care facilities. Combining …-education women. This leads to lower reading scores among children, primarily as a result of mothers shifting away from formal care …

concerned with how mothers ́mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not … indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found … with regard to mothers ́mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care …

coverage is particularly pronounced for under 3 year-olds. The present paper is concerned with how mothers' mental and physical … rates as an instrument for individual formal child care usage. The results indicate that mothers are in a worse physical … condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found with regard to mothers' mental health. Overall …

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 …

This paper examines the effects of universal daycare on mothers' labor force participation, full-time employment, and … participation effects. For higher-educated mothers, participation effects diminish over time, whereas earnings effects prevail in …