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 …

Women's labor force participation has rapidly increased in most countries, but mothers still struggle to achieve a …

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 …

We estimate the marginal treatment effect of childcare use on mothers' labor market outcomes by using a staggered … negatively associated with the propensity to use childcare, which implies that mothers who increase their labor supply the least … when subjected to the treatment are those mothers with the highest underlying tendency to use childcare. Because the …

question. Our paper provides new comprehensive evidence on how a home care subsidy jointly affects maternal labour market … subsidy of initially 100 Euros per month for families who do not use subsidised childcare. Exploiting a date-of-birth cut …, we show that the reform reduced mothers' likelihood to return to work within three years by only 1.4 percentage points …