School entry, afternoon care, and mothers’ labour supply
School entry, afternoon care, and mothers’ labour supply
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入学、下午看护和母亲的劳动力供应
作者：
Ludovica Gambaro;Jan Marcus;Frauke H. Peter
是否有托儿服务是母亲参加劳动力队伍的一个关键因素。虽然大多数文献研究学龄前儿童的保育，我们特别关注小学学龄儿童，估计正式的下午护理对产妇劳动力供应的影响。为此，我们使用了一种新的匹配技术，熵平衡，并借鉴了德国社会经济小组（SOEP）的丰富的纵向数据。我们表明，儿童的下午照顾增加母亲的就业率和他们的工作时间。为了证实我们的结果的鲁棒性，我们进行了一系列的敏感性分析，并应用一个新提出的方法来评估可能的偏差省略的变量。我们的研究结果强调了儿童保育的可用性如何在入学后很好地塑造母亲的就业模式。
The availability of childcare is a crucial factor for mothers’ labour force participation. While most of the literature examines childcare for preschool children, we specifically focus on primary school-aged children, estimating the effect of formal afternoon care on maternal labour supply. To do so, we use a novel matching technique, entropy balancing, and draw on the rich and longitudinal data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We show that children’s afternoon care increases mothers’ employment rates and their working hours. To confirm the robustness of our results, we conduct a series of sensitivity analyses and apply a newly proposed method to assess possible bias from omitted variables. Our findings highlight how childcare availability shapes maternal employment patterns well after school entry.