Abstract:En este trabajo se analiza la incidencia de un aumento en las horas escolares de los niños sobre la oferta laboral femenina en República Dominicana. La reciente política de Jornada Escolar Extendida (JEE) duplica las horas escolares en el sistema público dominicano, lo cual podría generar un cambio en las decisiones laborales de los hogares beneficiados. En particular, esta iniciativa relaja las restricciones que enfrentan las mujeres para participar en el mercado de trabajo, teniendo en cuenta que las madres … Show more
“…and non-cognitive outcomes. Existing studies on the e↵ects of FTS concentrate on short-term low-stakes test scores (Cerdan-Infantes and Vermeersch, 2007;Bellei, 2009;Dias Mendes, 2011;Xerxenevsky, 2012;Llambí, 2013;Orkin, 2013;Almeida et al, 2016;Hincapie, 2016;Cabrera-Hernández, 2020;Agüero et al, 2021;Padilla-Romo, 2022), mothers and grandmothers' labor supply (Nemitz, 2015;Contreras and Sepúlveda, 2017;Padilla-Romo and Cabrera-Hernández, 2019;Cabrera-Hernández and Padilla-Romo, 2020;Garganta and Zentner, 2020;Berthelon et al, 2022), child labor (Kozhaya and Flores, 2022), divorce (Padilla-Romo et al, 2022), teen pregnancy, and youth crime (Berthelon and Kruger, 2011). Outcomes in the long run have received less attention.…”
“…and non-cognitive outcomes. Existing studies on the e↵ects of FTS concentrate on short-term low-stakes test scores (Cerdan-Infantes and Vermeersch, 2007;Bellei, 2009;Dias Mendes, 2011;Xerxenevsky, 2012;Llambí, 2013;Orkin, 2013;Almeida et al, 2016;Hincapie, 2016;Cabrera-Hernández, 2020;Agüero et al, 2021;Padilla-Romo, 2022), mothers and grandmothers' labor supply (Nemitz, 2015;Contreras and Sepúlveda, 2017;Padilla-Romo and Cabrera-Hernández, 2019;Cabrera-Hernández and Padilla-Romo, 2020;Garganta and Zentner, 2020;Berthelon et al, 2022), child labor (Kozhaya and Flores, 2022), divorce (Padilla-Romo et al, 2022), teen pregnancy, and youth crime (Berthelon and Kruger, 2011). Outcomes in the long run have received less attention.…”
“…Our study contributes to the specific analysis of the effects of the JEE. Garganta and Zentner (2021) showed that this introduction of longer school days in the country had a positive impact on female labor force participation, particularly for low-educated women who are not the primary earner in the household. We add up to this literature by analyzing its impacts on risky behaviors among adolescents, particularly on the prevalence of teenage fertility.…”
This paper investigates the potential impact of extended school days in reducing teenage fertility. We study the Jornada Escolar Extendida program, which doubled the school-day length from 4 to 8 hours in the Dominican Republic, and exploit the geographic and time variation induced by its gradual implementation. We find evidence that a higher exposure to JEE in the municipality, measured as the percentage of secondary students covered by the program, reduces the incidence of teenage pregnancies, and that the effect is stronger after the program has reached at least half of secondary students in the municipality. The estimates are robust to various specifications and alternative checks. These results suggest that extended school-day policies can have spillover effects regarding teenagers fertility choices.
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