This study investigates the employment and childcare use behaviour of migrant and non-migrant mothers in Germany. We … potential endogeneity of childcare use. We do not find an additional contribution of a migrant background to mothers' use of … childcare. However, among self-immigrated mothers with a youngest child aged 3 to 5, roots in Southeastern Europe are associated …

quality of jobs mothers find by estimating the causal effect of a school schedule reform in Chile. Combining plausibly … exogenous temporal and spatial variations in school schedules with a panel of individual mothers' employment between 2002 and …Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers' labor force …

extending childcare availability on mothers' labour outcomes. I find that an increase in childcare availability has a positive … for partnered mothers. A set of robustness checks confirm the validity of the identification strategy and the results. …

heterogeneous response incentives. We find that the reform sped up the labor market return of all mothers after benefit expiration …. Likely pathways for this substantial reform effect are changes in social norms and mothers' preferences for economic …

Expanding access to pre-school education and childcare services has been a key policy on the agenda of many governments … quality pre-school education is expected to have positive effects on child development and reduce socio-economic inequalities … availability of affordable pre-school services is also hoped to raise maternal employment, which in turn could promote gender …

heterogeneous response incentives. We find that the reform speeds up the labor market return of both groups of mothers after benefit … effect are changes in social norms and mothers' preferences for economic independence. …

mothers. Overall, our results call for a policy debate on how to design targeted supplements for disadvantaged families to … support working mothers and their children. …

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

of mothers in the target group, but only weak evidence of an increase in contracted hours of work. However, both … adjustments are only short term following the reform. When we consider sub-groups of mothers more closely, we find substantial … heterogeneity in the affected outcomes and the timing of these effects. In particular, when we exclude mothers on job …