The Effect of All-Day Primary School Programs on Maternal Labor Supply

Nemitz, Janina

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“…For example, Nemitz () studies the effects of a sharp increase of more than 30 percentage points in FTSs in Germany and finds effects close to zero. Similarly Felfe, Lechner, and Thiemann () find a positive effect on mothers' full‐time employment, but a negative effect on fathers' employment at the intensive margin in Switzerland.…”

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Easing the Constraints of Motherhood: The Effects of All‐day Schools on Mothers' Labor Supply

Padilla‐Romo

Cabrera‐Hernández²

2018

Economic Inquiry

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Low rates of female labor force participation (LFP) have been linked to the absence of childcare policies. This article examines the degree to which extending the school day by 3.5 hours in elementary schools, a large implicit childcare subsidy, affects LFP, the number of weekly hours worked, and the monthly earnings of females with elementaryschool-age children. To do so, we exploit within-individual variation in access to full-time schools and a rotating panel of households that contains 12 years of individual-level data on labor outcomes and sociodemographic characteristics. Results from long-difference models show that extending the school day increases mothers' labor supply, increasing LFP by 5.5 percentage points and the number of weekly hours worked by 1.8. Moreover, these increases are accompanied by a raise in monthly earnings. (JEL I25, J13, J22) * We would like to thank Kitt Carpenter,

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Easing the Constraints of Motherhood: The Effects of All‐day Schools on Mothers' Labor Supply

Padilla‐Romo

Cabrera‐Hernández²

2018

Economic Inquiry

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“…An upward bias in cases like this is not ruled out by Oster bounds or the robustness check on a specific case of reverse causality thatGambaro et al (2016) present.23Nemitz (2015) additionally presents a large positive 2SLS estimate obtained with the SOEP data as some additional evidence for the positive effect. But, as she acknowledges, this estimate suffers from huge standard errors.…”

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The Effects of After-School Programs on Maternal Employment

Dehos

Paul

2017

SSRN Journal

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This paper evaluates the impact of a massive expansion of after-school programs (ASPs) on the labor market participation of mothers with primary school children in the West German context of relatively low full-time employment rates. Using an instrumental variables approach we exploit regional and temporal variation in the provision of federal ASP starting grants by a nationwide investment program. Results suggest that additional ASP places had no effect on working hours or the employment probability of mothers with primary school children.

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“…Nemitz () also uses the GSOEP and identifies treatment uses spending on the reform at the county level as well as the share of pupils in a given state who attend a full day school as instruments for access to full day schools. She finds that the German reform caused mothers to enter the labor market, but had no effect on hours.…”

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“…Additionally, they do not differentiate between mothers with primary and secondary school aged children, which is an issue since they have different labor supply concerns. Nemitz (2015) also uses the GSOEP and identifies treatment uses spending on the reform at the county level as well as the share of pupils in a given state who attend a full day school as instruments for access to full day schools. She finds that the German reform caused mothers to enter the labor market, but had no effect on hours.…”

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School Hours and Maternal Labor Supply

Shure¹

2019

Kyklos

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Summary This paper examines the effect of extending the primary school day on maternal labor supply. I exploit the staggered nature of the recent German reform to extend school hours and assess whether or not gaining access to a full day school increases the likelihood that mothers enter into the labor market or extend their hours worked if already employed. I use the German Socio‐Economic Panel data set (GSOEP) and link it to a self‐collected school‐level data set with geographical information software (GIS). Using a flexible difference‐in‐difference approach in the estimation of linear probability and logit models, I find that the policy has a statistically significant effect of approximately five percentage points at the extensive margin, drawing more women into the labor market. I find no significant effect of the policy at the intensive margin; women who were already working do not extend their hours worked. This has implications for policies to extend the school day that do not correspond to the working day.

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The Effect of All-Day Primary School Programs on Maternal Labor Supply

Cited by 10 publications

References 33 publications

Easing the Constraints of Motherhood: The Effects of All‐day Schools on Mothers' Labor Supply

Easing the Constraints of Motherhood: The Effects of All‐day Schools on Mothers' Labor Supply

The Effects of After-School Programs on Maternal Employment

School Hours and Maternal Labor Supply

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