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Résumé
Subsidized childcare is a key instrument to support maternal employment in most OECD countries. Using a major reform implemented in Luxembourg in 2009, I study the effects of expanding access to subsidized childcare on the employment decisions of women in a context where childcare is universal and heavily subsidized, but is limited by capacity constraints. The identification strategy relies on temporal variation across age groups of children. In response to the reform, the employment rate of mothers increased by 3 percentage points, and their working time grew by 1 h per week. This effect hides the difference between children’s ages, as mothers of the youngest children are found to be more responsive to the reform than mothers of children in primary education. Studying heterogeneous effects reveals a differential impact of the reform with regard to prior employment status.
langue originale | Anglais |
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Pages (de - à) | 497-532 |
Nombre de pages | 36 |
journal | Review of Economics of the Household |
Volume | 20 |
Numéro de publication | 2 |
Date de mise en ligne précoce | 1 juil. 2021 |
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état | Publié - 1 juil. 2022 |
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Publisher Copyright:© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
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CHILDCARE: CHILDCARE - Optimal policies in the market for childcare : theory and evidence form Luxembourg
Verheyden, B., Bia, M., Bousselin, A., Dupuy, A., Galichon, A. & Datta Gupta, N.
1/05/14 → 30/04/18
Projet: Recherche
Publications
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Expanding access to universal childcare: Effects on childcare arrangements and maternal employment
Bousselin, A., mai 2019, LISER, 40 p. (Working Papers; Numéro 2019-11).Résultats de recherche: Papier de travail › Working paper
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