Maternal Labor Supply and the Introduction of Kindergartens into American Public Schools

Cascio, Elizabeth

doi:10.1353/jhr.2009.0034

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“…21 This is in line with previous studies emphasising the key role played by child care accessibility in determining mothers' labour supply(Cascio, 2009;Herbst & Barnow, 2008;Ulker & Guven, 2011).© 2013 Economic Society of Australia 21 This is in line with previous studies emphasising the key role played by child care accessibility in determining mothers' labour supply(Cascio, 2009;Herbst & Barnow, 2008;Ulker & Guven, 2011).© 2013 Economic Society of Australia…”

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The Impact of Fertility on Mothers' Labour Supply in Australia: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size

Moschion

2013

Economic Record

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This paper estimates the impact of fertility on mothers' labour supply in Australia, using exogenous variation in family size generated by twin births and the gender mix of siblings. Results show that having more than one child decreases mothers' labour market participation by 12 percentage points and hours worked by around four hours per week. Having more than two children reduces labour market participation by 12 percentage points and hours worked by three hours a week. Compared with other countries, the effects for Australia are large. †I thank Deborah , the labour market participation (LMP) rate of 15-to 64-year-old women rose from 45 per cent in 1970 to 70 per cent in 2009, whereas men's LMP rate decreased from 91 per cent to 83 per cent during the same time period (OECD).

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The Impact of Fertility on Mothers' Labour Supply in Australia: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size

Moschion

2013

Economic Record

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“…Some of these dates were verified using information collected by Cascio (2009aCascio ( , 2009b, Tanner and Tanner (1973), and Steiner (1957). 13 Table 1 lists the year in which kindergarten first began to be subsidized using state revenue.…”

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“…Cascio (2009b) also used the kindergarten expan sion to examine how these programs affected maternal labor supply. She found a labor supply response for single mothers but not for married mothers.…”

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Who Benefits From Kindergarten? Evidence From the Introduction of State Subsidization

Dhuey

2011

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis

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Over the past 70 years, all states in the United States began to publicly subsidize kindergarten using state revenue. The variation in adoption dates across states allows for a unique opportunity to measure the effectiveness of the largest early education program implemented in recent history. The significant, immediate increase in the availability of kindergarten within a state is used to identify the effect of enrollment in kindergarten. Hispanic children, non-English speakers, children from immigrant households, and children of low socioeconomic status benefit the most from the increased availability of kindergarten. Hispanic children with access to kindergarten are 17% less likely to be below grade for their age and earn wages 5% higher as adults.

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“… 1 Authors such as Bedard and Dhuey (2006), Cascio (2009), Cascio and Lewis (2006), Datar (2006), Elder and Lubotsky (2009), Fertig and Kluve (2005), Fredriksson and Öckert (2005), McCrary and Royer (2006), and McEwan and Shapiro (2008) have used identification strategies based on eligibility cutoffs to estimate the effect of a child’s school starting age on a number of outcomes, including test scores, grade repetition, educational attainment and earnings. …”

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The importance of relative standards in ADHD diagnoses: Evidence based on exact birth dates

Elder

2010

Journal of Health Economics

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This paper presents evidence that diagnoses of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are driven largely by subjective comparisons across children in the same grade in school. Roughly 8.4 percent of children born in the month prior to their state’s cutoff date for kindergarten eligibility – who typically become the youngest and most developmentally immature children within a grade – are diagnosed with ADHD, compared to 5.1 percent of children born in the month immediately afterward. A child’s birth date relative to the eligibility cutoff also strongly influences teachers’ assessments of whether the child exhibits ADHD symptoms but is only weakly associated with similarly measured parental assessments, suggesting that many diagnoses may be driven by teachers’ perceptions of poor behavior among the youngest children in a classroom. These perceptions have long-lasting consequences: the youngest children in fifth and eighth grades are nearly twice as likely as their older classmates to regularly use stimulants prescribed to treat ADHD.

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Maternal Labor Supply and the Introduction of Kindergartens into American Public Schools

Cited by 184 publications

References 21 publications

The Impact of Fertility on Mothers' Labour Supply in Australia: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size

The Impact of Fertility on Mothers' Labour Supply in Australia: Evidence from Exogenous Variation in Family Size

Who Benefits From Kindergarten? Evidence From the Introduction of State Subsidization

The importance of relative standards in ADHD diagnoses: Evidence based on exact birth dates

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