The Department of Economics invites you to a Macro, Risk and Sustainability Seminar with Katrin Huber, University of Potsdam.
We study the impact of public child care on mothers' careers, focusing on qualitative dimensions of career choices such as working in jobs with abstract tasks or jobs with managerial responsibilities. Using an event study design and social security data, we find that child care helps mothers return to the labour market more quickly, but does not affect the quality of their careers on average. Focusing on heterogeneous effects, however, we detect that child care in combination with flexible work environments has the potential to significantly improve mothers' career trajectories.