TY  - RPRT
A1  - Huber, Katrin
A1  - Rolvering, Geske
T1  - Public child care and mothers’ career trajectories
T2  - CEPA Discussion Papers
N2  - This paper studies the effect of public child care on mothers’ career trajectories. To this end, we combine county-level data on child care coverage with detailed individual-level information from the German social security records and exploit a set of German reforms leading to a substantial temporal and spatial variation in child care coverage for children under the age of three. We conduct an event study approach that investigates the labor market outcomes of mothers in the years around the birth of their first child. We thereby explore career trajectories, both in terms of quantity and quality of employment. We find that public child care improves maternal labor supply in the years immediately following childbirth. However, the results on quality-related outcomes suggest that the effect of child care provision does not reach far beyond pure employment effects. These results do not change for mothers with different ‘career costs of children’.
T3  - CEPA Discussion Papers - 64 
KW  - child care
KW  - maternal employment
KW  - career costs of children
KW  - women’s careers
Y1  - 2023
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-587310
SN  - 2628-653X
IS  - 64
ER  -