Mothers’ Work and Child Care: Findings from the Urban Slums of Guatemala City

daycare-systematic-review-preprint

“…Finally, four other studies [22][23][24][25] used observational design with more traditional regression adjustment. Deutsch and colleagues [22] and two studies from Hallman and Quisimbing and colleagues [23,25] used cross-sectional data and applied Heckman selection-type models to try and control for unmeasured characteristics of women who did vs. did not utilize daycare.…”

“…Deutsch and colleagues [22] and two studies from Hallman and Quisimbing and colleagues [23,25] used cross-sectional data and applied Heckman selection-type models to try and control for unmeasured characteristics of women who did vs. did not utilize daycare. These studies generally found limited evidence of impacts of daycare on maternal employment and earnings.…”

“…Only one of the studies in our review was randomized [11], but a number of other studies were quasi-experimental. Notably, the studies that used observational designs without any attempt to identify plausibly exogenous variation in program exposure [21][22][23][24][25] tended to find weaker evidence or null effects. But, as noted above, it may be difficult to detect the direction of bias, as we found evidence of both upward [19] and downward [20] bias in naive analyses among papers with quasi-experimental study designs.…”

Educación que rinde: Mujeres, trabajo y cuidado infantil en América Latina y el Caribe: Resumen

“…• La presencia de cuidadores alternativos en el hogar (abuela, tías y otros adultos en general) reduce la demanda de servicios formales de cuidado infantil (Attanasio y Vera-Hernández, 2004;Connelly, DeGraff y Levison, 1996;Deutsch, 1998;Hallman et al, 2005).…”

“…• El mayor nivel educativo de la madre incrementa la probabilidad de uso de servicios de cuidado infantil no parentales (Bernal y Hallman et al, 2005;). …”