as childcare and leave policies interaction. The findings from the fixed effects model reveal that childcare coverage for … gap in employment. The impact of the leaves depends, however, on childcare availability: long maternity leaves combined … with high childcare coverage lead to greater employment gap than when the coverage is low. The results do not prove that …

Previous studies report a range of estimates for the response of female labor supply and childcare attendance to … childcare prices. We shed new light on these questions using a policy reform that raises the price of public daycare. After the …

open questions who responds to and who benefits from public investments into early childcare. We use the introduction of …

two possible interventions: paternity leave and high-quality childcare. We find no impact of paternity leave on child … penalties or a measure of father's preferences for childcare. In contrast, a year of publicly provided childcare reduces child … alternatives to the mother's time, such as quality childcare, is more effective than paternity leave. …