Maternal Labour Supply: What Mothers Say

Behaviour, Organisations and Markets Seminar
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Although children's childcare needs decline as they grow older, mothers' working hours increase only modestly in many countries. This new project studies the labor supply decisions of mothers with younger and older children using almost 300 AI-assisted qualitative interviews with Dutch mothers drawn from a longitudinal household panel.

Speaker
Christian Pugnaghi Zimpelmann
Date
Tuesday 8 Sep 2026, 13:00 - 14:00
Type
Seminar
Room
1.17
Building
Polak Building
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Joint work with Mareen Bastiaans, Jan Berendsen, and Iris Kesternich

The data allows us to combine rich insights into the considerations underlying their work decisions with existing survey information. We analyse how the factors shaping mothers' labor supply decisions evolve over the life course of their children, how they differ by current working hours and other characteristics, and how they relate to expected future labour supply.

Christian's research interests include labour supply and financial decision of households, with a particular focus on the behavioural foundations underlying these choices.

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