Maternal employment and child care decision
Maternal employment and child care decision
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DOI：
10.1093/oep/gpn047
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发表时间：
2009-04-01
影响因子：
1.2
通讯作者：
Muehler, Grit
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作者：
Coneus, Katja;Goeggel, Kathrin;Muehler, Grit
在估算儿童保育参与的决定因素时，母亲决定工作和决定使用儿童保育的同时性是一个重大挑战。我们通过应用工具变量法解决母亲劳动力供给的内生性问题，提供了关于机构儿童保育使用决定因素的首个证据。这种内生性在儿童保育选择的研究中常常被忽视，尽管在家外使用儿童保育的决定与母亲产后决定工作密切相关，反之亦然。基于1989年至2006年的德国社会经济面板数据（SOEP），我们表明，如果母亲增加实际每周工作时间，生活在西德的儿童参加机构保育的概率更高。在不解决同时性问题的情况下估算儿童保育参与的决定因素，会大大低估母亲工作时间的影响。
When estimating the determinants of child care participation, the simultaneity in mothers decision to work and in the decision to use child care is a major challenge. We provide first evidence on the determinants of institutional child care use addressing the endogeneity of mothers labor supply by applying an instrumental variables approach. This endogeneity has often been neglected in studies on child care choice, even though the decision to use child care outside the home is strongly connected to mothers decision to work after childbirth and vice versa. Based on the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP) from 1989 to 2006 we show that children living in West Germany have a higher probability to attend institutional care if their mothers increase their actual weekly working time. Estimating the determining factors of child care participation without addressing the simultaneity issue substantially underestimates the influence of maternal working time.