between mothers’ LFP and daughters’ LFP and fertility choices. We show that even though grandmothers who participate in the … labor force. This can be explained by the increase in family income as a result of mothers’ LFP offsetting the influence of …

2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school …

choices led mothers to take, on average, 1-2 months less of leave. This decrease in leave duration, however, was not … accompanied by an employment increase of similar magnitude. To understand the absence of labor supply effects, we examine data on … few mothers indicate that they would start working if better access to formal childcare were available. Switching to the …

future.’ In this article, I examine trends in the employment gap between mothers and fathers of young children over the last …In 1985, Gary Becker predicted employment and childcare sex gaps may ‘disappear or be greatly attenuated in the near …