employment and fertility among women, as well as long-run cognitive outcomes among children. A structural life-cycle model of … employment, fertility, and child care use is estimated using Norwegian administrative data. The estimation exploits a large …-scale child care reform, which provided generous cash transfers to mothers who did not use formal child care facilities. Combining …

Expanding childcare is often considered as a suitable way to enhance employment opportunities of mothers with young … set of scenarios of increasing subsidized childcare slots and mothers' employment. For a variety of European welfare … increased mothers' employment should be well targeted. The expenditures for additional childcare slots can to a large extent be …

The share of single mothers is higher in East Germany than in West Germany. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel …

We study the impact of public child care on mothers' career trajectories, focusing on qualitative dimensions of career … choices. Using an event study approach, we find that child care helps mothers to return to the labor market more quickly and … that this effect is mainly due to an increase in part-time employment. At the same time, we find no short- or long …

-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 is largely driven by increased care hours provided by child care centers and fathers. Overall, the treatment …

-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 is largely driven by increased care hours provided by child care centers and fathers. Overall, the treatment …