Longer school schedules, childcare and the quality of mothers' employment

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Berthelon, Matias [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ,5 ,6 ]
Kruger, Diana [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ,5 ,6 ]
Lauer, Catalina [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ,5 ,6 ]
Tiberti, Luca [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ,5 ,6 ]
Zamora, Carlos [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ,5 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Univ Adolfo Ibanez, Santiago, Chile
[2] IZA, Bonn, Germany
[3] COES, Santiago, Chile
[4] Univ Adolfo Ibanez, Partnership Econ Policy PEP, Santiago, Chile
[5] Grad Sch Econ Finance & Management GSEFM, Santiago, Chile
[6] Univ Florence & Partnership Econ Policy PEP, Euromonitor Int, Santiago, Chile
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LABOR; PRESCHOOL; CHOICE;
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10.1093/epolic/eiae037
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F [经济];
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摘要
Better employment quality can improve personal well-being, social cohesion, and inclusive growth and development. Yet good quality jobs - associated with greater well-being - are less accessible to women than men. While it is understood that policies balancing family and work lead to greater female labour participation, this paper investigates whether one such policy - increased childcare - improves the quality of jobs where mothers are employed. The context we analyse is a nationwide school reform in Chile that extended school schedules for primary school-aged children, providing childcare services. We combine administrative data of the phase-in of the policy with panel data of individual mothers' employment outcomes and socio-economic characteristics. We estimate a fixed-effects model that controls for mothers' unobserved heterogeneity and identifies the effect of the policy from plausibly exogenous temporal and spatial variations in access to schools with long schedules and exogenous exposure to the policy. We find a positive effect of childcare on several measures of employment quality and gender gaps within the couple. Our evidence suggests that the mechanism driving the impact is the implicit subsidy to the cost of childcare, affecting the opportunity cost of mothers' time. In addition, we find heterogeneous results by mothers' education level. Access to childcare through longer primary school schedules can increase household welfare and can play a role in reducing income and gender inequalities.
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页码:817 / 846
页数:30
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