The falling female labor force participation rate in China has raised the attention oflabor economists and policymakers. In light of this, this paper documents the changesin labor force participation of mothers relative to fathers around first births (referred to asthe "child penalty" in the...

This paper analyzes the impact of relaxing the One-Child Policy to the Two-Child Policy (TCP) on the employment of couples in China. By exploiting the regional variation in the timing of the policy implementation and the differences in exposure to the policy by subpopulation and by cohorts, we...