We investigate the role of employment in explaining changes in the mental health of single mothers compared to … partnered mothers and single childless women during the period of welfare reform in the UK. We employ a time allocation … health for all women but the association was not statistically significant for single mothers. Mental health inequalities …

variation in the amount of time that mothers can remain home with a newborn child. I use this variation to estimate local … Birth cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, the OLS results show that children of working mothers score higher …. An auxiliary analysis of mechanisms finds that working mothers experience an increase in depressive symptoms, and are …

This paper considers the effect of child care costs on two labor market outcomes for single mothers - whether to …

married mothers. We develop a life-cycle model where married couples face labor market, child care and fertility risk, and … mothers' employment decisions. We calibrate the model to the U.S. using data from the Current Population Survey. We show that … participation tax rates exceed 25 percent for most mothers in our sample, and can be as high as 60 percent when including child care …