Childcare arrangements are key in women's ability to juggle motherhood and working outside the home. As such, the study … of the access to childcare and its use is of great policy relevance. We focus on a particular kind of informal childcare …, the one provided by grandparents. Empirically, assessing the effect of grandparental childcare is not an easy task due to …

new evidence on whether the use of centre-based childcare (CBC) in infancy and early years promotes non-cognitive skills … by school entry. We focus on the type of non-parental childcare used by mothers who are working when their child is nine … months, comparing CBC with other form of non-parental care. We consider the impact of childcare type on three domains of …

classrooms, increasing the demand for household-provided childcare. Using time diaries from American Time Use Survey (ATUS) and … childcare in the COVID-19 era by the couple's joint work location arrangements. We determine the work location of the ATUS … childcare, especially mothers, compared to those on-site; fathers spent more time on household chores. However, only mothers …

The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility … increased the supply of child-care services. In this paper we examine if immigration has actually affected fertility exploiting … instrumental variable approach and several robustness tests, all concluding that the increase in the supply of child-care services …