Effects of subsidized childcare on mothers’ labor supply under a rationing mechanism
Effects of subsidized childcare on mothers’ labor supply under a rationing mechanism
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配给机制下托儿补贴对母亲劳动力供给的影响
DOI：
10.1016/j.labeco.2018.09.002
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发表时间：
2018
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影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Ryo Kambayashi
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作者：
Shintaro Yamaguchi;Yukiko Asai;Ryo Kambayashi
我们使用日本跨地区儿童保育服务的交错扩展来估计儿童保育使用对母亲劳动力市场结果的边际处理效果。估计表明，异质性治疗效果与使用儿童保育的倾向呈负相关，这意味着在接受治疗时增加劳动力供应最少的母亲是使用儿童保育的潜在倾向最高的母亲。由于托儿配给规定倾向于在申请前将托儿名额分配给全职工作的母亲，因此这些名额往往会分配给劳动力依恋最强的母亲，她们也是往往最倾向于使用托儿服务的母亲。
We estimate the marginal treatment effect of childcare use on mothers’ labor market outcomes by using a staggered expansion of childcare services across regions in Japan. The estimates show that the heterogeneous treatment effects are negatively associated with the propensity to use childcare, which implies that mothers who increase their labor supply the least when subjected to the treatment are those mothers with the highest underlying tendency to use childcare. Because the childcare rationing rule tends to allocate childcare slots to mothers who work full-time before they apply, the slots tend to go to mothers who have the strongest labor force attachment, who are also the mothers who tend to have the strongest propensity to use childcare.