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Mevlude Akbulut-Yuksel, Mutlu Yuksel, and Melanie Khamis (Wesleyan University) were recently awarded the prestigious 2014 W.E. Upjohn Institute Early Career Research Grant for their project, "Family Policies and Female Labor Market Outcomes From Social Security Records," which proposes to estimate the causal effect of family policies on female labor market outcomes. Previous research has focused on other family policies such as maternity leave, child care coverage, and parental allowance separately, and has estimated the impacts of these policies on various labor market outcomes. In the current project, they combine social security records from newly available administrative data and municipal level information on child care provision and fathers' parental allowance in Germany to determine the effect of child care availability on short- and long-term labor force participation and occupational choice of women.