TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Huber, Katrin
AU  - Rolvering, Geske
        TI  - Public Child Care and Mothers' Career Trajectories
        PY  - 2023/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 16433
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp16433
        AB  - We study the impact of public child care on mothers' career trajectories, focusing on qualitative dimensions of career choices. Using an event study approach, we find that child care helps mothers to return to the labor market more quickly and that this effect is mainly due to an increase in part-time employment. At the same time, we find no short- or long-term effects of child care on the quality of maternal careers, as measured, for example, by employment stability, employment in occupations with abstract tasks, or employment in managerial positions. Furthermore, we find no evidence of heterogeneous effects across mothers.
        KW  - child care
KW  - maternal employment
KW  - career costs of children
KW  - women's careers
        ER  -