Cost-Effective Public Daycare in a Low-Income Economy Benefits Children and Mothers

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Social Norms as a Barrier to Women’s Employment in Developing Countries

“…It also increased take-up of already-existing free child care for younger children; once the older children's care became free, women found it worthwhile to use the available child care services for their younger children and enter the labor market. Likewise, Hojman and Lopez Boo (2019) find that access to subsidized day care in Nicaragua increases mothers' likelihood of working by 14 percentage points, or about one third. Clark et al (2019) offer vouchers for subsidized day care in an informal settlement in Nairobi and find that mothers' employment increased, concentrated among married women.…”

Childcare and Mothers' Labor Market Outcomes in Lower- and Middle-Income Countries

“…A recent study of Nicaragua's publicly provided daycare Programa Urbano leverages a combination of imperfect random assignment of community daycare centers (Centros Infantiles Comunitarios) and distance to daycare centers (Hojman and López Bóo 2019). Programa Urbano targets extremely poor families in urban neighborhoods and serves children ages 0 to 4 for half a day, five days a week.…”

Investimento público em serviços sociais como componente central de uma agenda de desenvolvimento

“…do trabalho doméstico (Barros et al, 2011;Barbosa;Costa, 2017;Hojman;Bóo, 2019;Morel;Palier;Palme, 2013). Políticas de conciliação entre família e trabalho, que tem entre seus componentes centrais os serviços educacionais e de cuidados, são apontadas como cruciais para reduzir o chamado family gap: o diferencial de desempenho no mercado de trabalho entre mães e não mães (Waldfogel, 1998).…”