employment due to childcare and how their perceptions are affected by whether they had their children prior to or after the fall … of the socialist regime. The analysis reveals that women’s perceptions of interruptions in employment due to childcare … exhibit more negative perceptions of how engaging in childcare influenced their careers compared to mothers who interrupted …

threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is …

childcare. This trend has raised concerns, and an intense debate in several countries has focused on the effectiveness of … childcare policies. …

the type of childcare used. Identifying attitude-practice dissonances matters because how they get resolved influences … participation and the use of formal childcare contradict their traditional prenatal attitudes. Women's prenatal earnings have an …

Most public expenditure on childcare in the US is made through a federal program, the Child Care and Development Fund … employment and reduce welfare dependence among low-income families. Childcare subsidies have been effective in enabling parents …

exploits the variation in the timing of interviews across individuals and the fact that childcare declines with the age of … grandchildren. We find that 10 additional hours of childcare per month, a 31 percent increase with respect to the sample average ….9 percentage points for grandfathers. These results suggest that policies that substitute informal with formal childcare can …

quality of these data. This paper investigates whether the secondary childcare questions in the ATUS are measuring the stated … construct alternative estimates that exclude time spent in secondary childcare that is inconsistent with other data collected … during the interview and find that the ATUS measure overestimates secondary childcare by at most 5 percent or about 16 …

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 …