More than ten years ago, to increase mothers' participation in the labour market and to
enhance child development, the province of Québec implemented a $5 per day universal …

We examine the effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent
children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of day care center and school …

We study how early child care (ECC) affects children's development in a marginal treatment
effect framework that allows for rich forms of observed and unobserved effect heterogeneity …

Reducing gender inequality in economic opportunities is considered valuable in its own
right and a critical element in ending poverty and boosting economic prosperity. Does the …

This study examines the employment effects of a large shock to mothers' childcare costs
generated by changes in the availability of in-person K-12 instruction during the COVID-19 …

In this study, we document the evolution of the gender pay gap in the UK over the past three
decades and its association with fertility, examining the role of various differences in career …

Using a natural experiment framework, we study the effects of offering full-time public
childcare for 3-year-olds in a context of low female labor force participation and insufficient …

This paper uses over 20 years of data from Indonesia's labor force survey to study trends in
female labor force participation (FLFP). We find that younger women in urban areas have …

What role does affordable and widely available public child care play for fertility? We exploit
a major German reform generating large temporal and spatial variation in child care …

Expanding public or publicly subsidized childcare has been a top social policy priority in
many industrialized countries. It is supposed to increase fertility, promote children's …