Does the cost of child care affect female labor market participation? An evaluation of a French reform of childcare subsidies

Givord, Pauline; Marbot, Claire

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2015.07.003

Cited by 106 publications

(70 citation statements)

References 22 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…While all of the national studies in the Special Section have made use of specific policy variation to isolate the effect of an individual policy change on female labor force participation, the resulting effects range from rather small (Asai, 2015;Givord and Marbot, 2015) to rather large (Haeck, Lefebvre, and Merrigan, 2015;Geyer, Haan, and Wrohlich 2015). In each case, the authors discuss the national context in which the policy was adopted, thereby providing richer insight into why the various effects were observed.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In each case, the authors discuss the national context in which the policy was adopted, thereby providing richer insight into why the various effects were observed. For example, two articles explicitly suggest that the scope for policy to increase labor supply is somewhat limited by the country having a previously high rate of female labor force participation (Givord and Marbot, 2015;Bettendorf, Jongen, and Muller, 2015). Two other articles note that, despite the fact that female labor force participation was initially relatively low, the lack of other supportive policies (leave policies by Nollenberger and Rodríguez-Planas, 2015; childcare poclies by Asai, 2015) can limit a policy's effects.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Two other articles note that, despite the fact that female labor force participation was initially relatively low, the lack of other supportive policies (leave policies by Nollenberger and Rodríguez-Planas, 2015; childcare poclies by Asai, 2015) can limit a policy's effects. Several articles explicitly discuss the possibility that social norms are important to understanding the effects (Asai, 2015;Givord and Marbot, 2015;Nollenberger and Rodríguez-Planas, 2015). 11 While such interactions between various policies, societal factors, and economic factors can be difficult to capture directly using a quasi-experimental strategy-only so much policy variation exists within any one country-it is important to remember that such interactions are potentially very important and should be taken into account in the interpretation of studies.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Using labor force survey data and a difference-in-differences strategy that takes advantage of the ages of children eligible for the subsidies (12 and below), the authors find that these policy changes increased the labor force participation of women by 2.3 percentage points (or about 3.2% of the comparison group mean) and increased the average number of hours worked per week by 1.1 hours (or 6.2%) -larger effects than those found in the French case examined by Givord and Marbot (2015). These increases in female labor supply were nevertheless still relatively small, and came at substantial cost.…”

Section: The Netherlandsmentioning

confidence: 86%

“…The Special Section includes two articles that evaluate the labor supply impacts of increases in childcare subsidies (Givord andMarbot, 2015, on France andBettendorf, Jongen, andMuller, 2015, on the Netherlands), one article that evaluates the labor supply effects of extending universal preschool (Nollenberger and Rodríguez-Planas, 2015, on Spain), and one comprehensive evaluation of a large reform in Québec, Canada that essentially did both (Haeck, Lefebvre, and Merrigan, 2015). (2015) evaluates a 2004 policy reform in France that markedly increased the childcare subsidy provided to families for children under the age of 3, but also temporarily induced variation in eligibility across families with similarly aged children as it was introduced.…”

Section: Articles On Childcare Subsidies and Preschoolmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 4 more Smart Citations

The effectiveness of policies that promote labor force participation of women with children: A collection of national studies

2015

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents inIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. Numerous countries have enacted policies to promote the labor force participation of women around the years of childbearing, and unsurprisingly, many research articles have been devoted to evaluating their effectiveness. Perhaps more surprisingly, however, six such articles were submitted independently over several months to Labour Economics and subsequently made it through the normal review process. These articles are collected in the Special Section that follows. This article provides additional background to facilitate the understanding of the policies that are evaluated in the Special Section articles and, more importantly, a discussion of what can be learned from the articles as a collection. Taken together, the articles are quite informative in demonstrating how the effectiveness of policies can vary across different national contexts and how this variation itself can be usefully examined with the standard theoretical framework.JEL Classification: J13, J22

show abstract

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Netherlandsmentioning

confidence: 86%

Section: Articles On Childcare Subsidies and Preschoolmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 3 more Smart Citations

The effectiveness of policies that promote labor force participation of women with children: A collection of national studies

2015

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Parent Care and Middle-Aged Women’s Employment

2021

Female Employment and Gender Gaps in China

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Does parent care influence Chinese women's participation in work? Using the longitudinal data of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey (CHARLS) from 2011 to 2015, this study investigates the influence of parent care giving on probability of work participation of women aged 45-69 in China.The random-effects model and the instrumental variables (IV) method are used to address the unobserved heterogeneity and other endogeneity problems. Although the results in previous studies that used younger and middle-aged women (i.e., women aged 18-52) indicate that parent care negatively affects women's labor supply, the results indicate that the probability of work participation is higher for the care-giving group. This can be explained by the fact that the positive effect (obtaining income effect) is higher than the negative effect (time-constraint effect). We also found that the influences of caring for parents on women's work participation differ by age and education group. KeywordsParent care • Work participation • Middle-aged women • China

show abstract

Do means-tested childcare subsidies discourage work?

Vattø,

Østbakken

2024

J Popul Econ

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

We examine how means-tested childcare subsidies affect parental labor supply. Using the introduction of reduced childcare prices for low-income families in Norway in 2015, we show that these subsidies may have the unintended effect of discouraging work rather than promoting employment. First, structural labor supply simulations suggest that a negative parental labor supply effect dominates, ex ante. Ex post, we find a small and insignificant effect of means-tested childcare subsidies on parental labor supply in the reform year. We find no statistically significant bunching around the income limits in subsequent years, but we do find negative labor supply effects in subsequent expansions of the reform. Our results suggest that in a context where both parental employment and participation in formal childcare are high, means-tested childcare subsidies may have unintended parental labor supply effects.

show abstract

Does the cost of child care affect female labor market participation? An evaluation of a French reform of childcare subsidies

Cited by 106 publications

References 22 publications

The effectiveness of policies that promote labor force participation of women with children: A collection of national studies

The effectiveness of policies that promote labor force participation of women with children: A collection of national studies

Parent Care and Middle-Aged Women’s Employment

Do means-tested childcare subsidies discourage work?

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About