Longer School Schedules, Childcare and the Quality of Mothers’ Employment

IF 4.5 3区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Economic Policy Pub Date : 2024-07-06 DOI:10.1093/epolic/eiae037
Matias Berthelon, Diana Kruger, Catalina Lauer, Luca Tiberti, Carlos Zamora
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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 labor participation, this paper investigates whether one such policy—increased childcare—improves the quality of jobs where mothers are employed. The context we analyze 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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较长的学制、儿童保育和母亲的就业质量
提高就业质量可以改善个人福祉、社会凝聚力以及包容性增长和发展。然而,女性比男性更难获得高质量的工作--这些工作与更高的福祉息息相关。众所周知,兼顾家庭和工作的政策会提高女性的劳动参与率,本文研究的就是这样一种政策--增加儿童保育--是否会提高母亲就业的工作质量。我们分析的背景是智利的一项全国性学校改革,这项改革延长了小学学龄儿童的上学时间,并提供托儿服务。我们将分阶段实施该政策的行政数据与母亲个人就业结果和社会经济特征的面板数据相结合。我们估算了一个固定效应模型,该模型控制了母亲们未观察到的异质性,并从进入长学制学校的看似外生的时间和空间变化以及外生的政策接触中识别出了该政策的效果。我们发现,托儿服务对就业质量和夫妻间性别差距的几项衡量指标都有积极影响。我们的证据表明,这种影响的驱动机制是对托儿成本的隐性补贴,影响了母亲的时间机会成本。此外,我们还发现了母亲教育水平的不同结果。通过延长小学学制获得托儿服务可以增加家庭福利,并在减少收入和性别不平等方面发挥作用。
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