After-school care and parents’ labor supply

Christina Felfe, Michael Lechner and Petra Thiemann

No 1334, Economics Working Paper Series from University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science

Abstract: Does after-school care provision promote mothers’ employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of schoolchildren? We address this question by exploiting variation in cantonal (state) regulations of after-school care provision in Switzerland. To establish exogeneity of cantonal regulations with respect to employment opportunities and preferences of the population, we restrict our analysis to confined regions along cantonal borders. Using semi-parametric instrumental variable methods, we find a positive impact of after-school care provision on mothers’ full-time employment, but a negative impact on fathers’ full-time employment. Thus, the supply of after-school care fosters a convergence of parental working hours.

Keywords: Childcare; parents’ labor supply; semi-parametric estimation methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 J13 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2013-11
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-lab and nep-lma
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