Revising Our Thinking About the Relationship Between Maternal Labor Supply and Preschool
Revising Our Thinking About the Relationship Between Maternal Labor Supply and Preschool
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DOI：
10.1353/jhr.2012.0026
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发表时间：
2012-06-01
影响因子：
5.2
通讯作者：
Fitzpatrick, Maria Donovan
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作者：
Fitzpatrick, Maria Donovan
许多人认为，育儿成本限制了母亲的劳动力供应，尽管现有的证据好坏参半。使用一个孩子的公立幼儿园的资格在回归不连续工具变量框架，我估计如何使用一个特定的补贴公立学校，影响产妇劳动力供应，我发现公立学校入学率只增加就业的单身母亲没有额外的幼儿。我比较这个结果与以前的工作，专注于惊人的增加，在类似的设置，但更早的时期（Gupsch 2002）。母亲人口、劳动力供应和生命周期事件模式的差异可能导致结果的差异。
Many argue that childcare costs limit the labor supply of mothers, though existing evidence has been mixed. Using a child's eligibility for public kindergarten in a regression discontinuity instrumental variables framework, I estimate how use of a particular subsidy public school, affects maternal labor supply I find public school enrollment increases only the employment of single mothers without additional young children. I compare this result to previous work, focusing on striking increases in a similar setting but earlier period (Gelabch 2002). Differences in the population of mothers, labor supply and patterns of lifecycle events likely drive the discrepancy in results.