Maternal Labor Supply and the Introduction of Kindergartens into American Public Schools

Cascio, Elizabeth

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“…To take an example on the constraint side, consider the maternal labor supply effects of universal kindergarten programs (for 5-year-olds) in the United States, which have been wellstudied (Gelbach, 2002;Cascio, 2009;Fitzpatrick, 2012). As described above (Tables 2 and 3), the United States is not particularly generous in terms of subsidizing childcare for children under the age of 5.…”

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The effectiveness of policies that promote labor force participation of women with children: A collection of national studies

2015

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents inIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. Numerous countries have enacted policies to promote the labor force participation of women around the years of childbearing, and unsurprisingly, many research articles have been devoted to evaluating their effectiveness. Perhaps more surprisingly, however, six such articles were submitted independently over several months to Labour Economics and subsequently made it through the normal review process. These articles are collected in the Special Section that follows. This article provides additional background to facilitate the understanding of the policies that are evaluated in the Special Section articles and, more importantly, a discussion of what can be learned from the articles as a collection. Taken together, the articles are quite informative in demonstrating how the effectiveness of policies can vary across different national contexts and how this variation itself can be usefully examined with the standard theoretical framework.JEL Classification: J13, J22

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“…A growing literature has studied how the availability of public childcare for preschool children shifts maternal labor supply (see Berlinski et al 2009 for Argentina;Cascio 2009;Gelbach 2002 for the United States; Lefebvre and Merrigan 2008 for Canada;Havnes and Mogstad 2011b for Norway; and Chiuri 2000 for Italy). The results are again not clear-cut.…”

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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply, and Children

Gathmann

Sass

2018

Journal of Labor Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. Abstract Previous studies report a range of estimates for the response of female labor supply and childcare attendance to childcare prices. We shed new light on these questions using a policy reform that raises the price of public daycare. After the reform, children are 8 percentage points less likely to attend public daycare which implies a compensated price elasticity of -0.6. There is little labor supply response in the full sample, though declines for vulnerable subgroups. Spillover effects on older siblings and fertility decisions show that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members.Acknowledgments: We thank Iwan

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“…The combined result of the reform saw a fall in child care costs and a rise in capacity. 2 There is a substantial literature on the importance of child care costs on the female labor supply over the last two decades (see for example, Blau & Robbins 1988;Ribar 1992;Connelly 1992;Connelly & Kimmel 2003;Blau & Tekin 2007;Gelbach 2002;Blau 2003;Baker, Gruber, & Milligan 2008;Lefebvre & Merrigan 2008;Herbst 2010;and Cascio 2009). Despite the large number of studies, considerable uncertainty lingers about the magnitude of the maternal employment effect with respect to the price of child care (Blau 2003).…”

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Enticing even higher female labor supply: the impact of cheaper day care

Hardoy

Schøne

2013

Rev Econ Household

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We ask whether cheaper child care can spur labor supply of mothers in an economy with high female labor supply. We exploit exogenous variation in child care prices induced by a public reform. A triple difference approach is put forward. The results show that reduced child care prices led to a rise in labor supply of mothers by approximately 5 percent. A "back-of-the-envelope" calculation estimates an elasticity of approximately -0.25, which is at the lower end compared to other studies, suggesting that labor supply is less elastic when female employment is high. Since a capacity-increase was introduced at the same time, the positive labor supply effect may be a result of both reduced prices and increased capacity.JEL classification: J13, J18, J22

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Maternal Labor Supply and the Introduction of Kindergartens into American Public Schools

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The effectiveness of policies that promote labor force participation of women with children: A collection of national studies

The effectiveness of policies that promote labor force participation of women with children: A collection of national studies

Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply, and Children

Enticing even higher female labor supply: the impact of cheaper day care

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