preferences as arising from the non-compliance of mothers to the availability of grandparents and from preferences of grandparents … grandparental childcare on mothers’ labour supply is positive, statistically significant and economically relevant. The effect is … stronger for lower educated mothers, with young children and living in the North and Centre …

with girls' schooling, while greater bargaining power for mothers who are relatively more risk averse than the father …

mothers in Germany. While mothers using center-based care spend significantly less time in the presence of their child, we … relatively small or zero. The pattern of results is more pronounced for lower education mothers. The lack of large decreases in … activities, but these are compensated for by lower education mothers during non-center hours. Our findings represent novel …

This chapter surveys recent literature on the drivers of mothers labour supply in OECD countries. We present a number … of facts on the variations across time and across countries of family composition and mothers employment. We aim to … play in households decision regarding mothers participation in the labour force? We aim to summarise the main results from …

and on mothers' labour market outcomes. Much less is known about older mothers' employment and marriage patterns when the … nest is negatively associated with older mothers' marriage probability. There is scope for better targeting of both family … and retirement policies for older mothers during those critical years when adult children leave the parental nest …

separation of pregnant single mothers leads to a decrease in birth weight (BW) by around 28 grams (-1% ca.) and an increase in … incidence of low BW for mothers in a marriage or stable union. We document more pronounced negative effects for single mothers … with lower earnings and no effect for mothers in the highest income quartile, suggesting a mitigating role of self …

larger for girls, children from rural households, and those with less-educated mothers. Our findings suggest that health …

increased childcare needs during school closures; in Nigeria, mothers of school-age children experience the largest declines in …