decreases the time mothers spend in the labor market. Few studies on lower-income countries, in which low household wealth …, informal child care, and informal employment opportunities prevail, find mixed results. Using Mexican census data, I find a … positive effect of an instrument-induced increase in fertility on maternal employment driven by an increase in informal work …

exogenous temporal and spatial variations in school schedules with a panel of mothers’ employment between 2002 and 2015, we …Ample empirical evidence has shown that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers’ labor …-force participation and employment. By estimating the causal effect of a school schedule reform in Chile, we investigated whether …

adjustments post-childbirth are heterogeneous across gender, then motherhood could be an important factor influencing the gender … engagement, we use a quality of employment (QoE) index to estimate the overall drop in job quality post-childbirth. We found a … drop in quality only for mothers. Moreover, for less educated women, the drop in QoE is equivalent to no longer being hired …

A child’s disability increases childcare demands causing two opposing effects on the mother’s labor supply: while some … supply. This paper studies the effect of a child’s disability on mothers’ labor supply using data from the 2019-20 IPUMS MICS … disability certificate or pension reduces a mother’s probability of participating in the labor force. No significant effect is …

This paper investigates the impact of workplace breastfeeding laws on the labor supply of mothers. We exploit a unique … maternal employment by 4% when children are in breastfeeding age. …

Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income … equally. We also find that individual gender norms matter both for women's involvement in unpaid work at home and for the …

This paper examines how culture impacts within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting the setting of Germany's division … and reunification, I compare child penalties of couples socialised in a more gender-egalitarian culture (East Germany) to … those in a gender-traditional culture (West Germany). Using a household panel, I show that the long-run child penalty on the …

variation in the share of individuals with non-traditional gender norms across birth-cohorts, survey year, education, and ….4% standard deviation. Our measure of non-traditional gender norms is the share of women who disagree with the statement "men …

We study the impact of gender norms on the distribution of paid and unpaid labor between women and men in an intra … norm, agents are connected via explicitly modeled social networks and accordingly face heterogeneous perceptions of gender … norms. In our model, social pressure to conform to gender norms exacerbates gender inequalities in the distribution of paid …

variation in the share of individuals with non-traditional gender norms across birth-cohorts, survey year, education, and ….4% standard deviation. Our measure of non-traditional gender norms is the share of women who disagree with the statement "men …