labour supply and employment impacts of publicly-funded paid leave on mothers in the first year post-partum. The almost … continuing in the same job and under the same conditions. Further new evidence shows that disadvantaged mothers - low income …

benefit compared to that of childless women. The labor force participation rate of mothers showed a drop of 2-3 percentage …

, we show that the reform reduced mothers' likelihood to return to work within three years by only 1.4 percentage points …

rate of mothers increased by 4-7 percentage points and their hours of work by around 3 hours per week. Studying … heterogeneous effects reveals a differential impact of the reform for more vulnerable mothers. Parents whose youngest child is under …

Ample empirical evidence has shown that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers’ labor … increased childcare for primary school children improved the quality of the jobs that mothers found. Combining plausibly … exogenous temporal and spatial variations in school schedules with a panel of mothers’ employment between 2002 and 2015, we …

benefits in Germany. We further investigate how the reform affects the selection of women into motherhood and how that … no effects on second-order fertility. While the reform slightly changes the selection of mothers, this has little impact …

In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany … Studie heterogene Effekte eines frühen Kindergartenbesuches auf die Schulfähigkeit von Kindern in Deutschland. Dabei wird der …

In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany …

In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany …