Childcare Access and the Allocation of Female Human Capital Across Firms

We thank Sarah H. Bana, Jennifer Brown, Irem Demirci, Isil Erel, Marina Gertsberg, Andrey Golubov, Will Gornall, Kai Li, Menaka Hampole, Alex He, Spyridon Lagaras, Adrien Matray, Hernan Ortiz-Molina, Elena Pikulina, Maximilian Rohrer, Annalisa Scognamiglio, Janis Skrastins, Ben Zhang, and seminar and conference participants at the ASSA, FOM Conference, Olin Corporate Finance Conference, Labor and Finance Group Conference, UBC Summer Finance Conference, Colorado Finance Summit, CSEF-RCFS Conference on Finance, Labor and Inequality, EFA, CICF, FIRS, NFA, MFA, Telfer Conference on Corporate Finance, Boston College, Texas A&M University, University of Oklahoma, University of Iowa, University of Georgia, Laval University, UVA Darden, Bilkent University, Fordham University, Renmin University, Peking University, and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) for helpful comments. We also thank the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Productivity Partnership Grant for funding this project. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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