domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior …

relevance of public child care to maternal employment is inconclusive. We exploit the introduction of a legal claim to a place … on two individual-level data sets yield large and positive effects of public child care on maternal employment. A set of …

women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation … effects: high educated non-mothers are persuaded by the informational treatments to increase their intended use of formal … child care (and to pay more); whereas low educated non-mothers to reduce their intended labor supply. These findings are …

women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation … effects: high educated non-mothers are persuaded by the informational treatments to increase their intended use of formal … child care (and to pay more); whereas low educated non-mothers to reduce their intended labor supply. These findings are …

child care on maternal employment, despite a strong correlation. Instead of increasing mothers' labor supply, the new …The strong correlation between child care and maternal employment rates has led previous research to conclude that … affordable and readily available child care is a driving force both of cross-country differences in maternal employment and of …

situation of the household play a more vital role than the cost of child care in the labor market decisions of Greek mothers …

treated firms, and there was an increased likelihood of women taking up permanent employment at reduced hours following their …

We estimate the marginal treatment effect of childcare use on mothers' labor market outcomes by exploiting a staggered … propensity to use childcare, which implies that mothers who increase their labor supply more are less likely to use childcare …. Negative selection into treatment arises, because the childcare rationing rule gives preferential treatment to mothers working …

with mothers whose wage rates are low, whereas both channels determine the decisions in households with mothers whose wage … rates are high. Using China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data, we find that among less-educated mothers, the incidence …. At the same time, maternal labor supply increases by 2.892 days per month. By contrast, for educated mothers, the …

that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in Norway. Our results reveal a significant increase in the overall employment … 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 …