Public School Availability for Two-year Olds and Mothers' Labour Supply

Dominique Goux and Eric Maurin ()

No 7299, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: French children start public school either the year they turn two or the year they turn three. We evaluate the impact of this unique schooling policy on maternal labour supply. Using a Regression-discontinuity design, we show that early school availability has a significant employment effect on lone mothers, but no effect on two-parent families. Also we show that the effect grows larger as the child grows older and as the family loses eligibility for child benefits. Finally, we provide some new evidence that school enrolment at the age of two has no adverse effect on children’s subsequent educational outcomes.

Keywords: Maternal Labor Supply; Preschool (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu and nep-lab
Date: 2009-05
View list of references

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cepr.org/pubs/dps/DP7299.asp (application/pdf)
CEPR Discussion Papers are free to download for our researchers, subscribers and members. If you fall into one of these categories but have trouble downloading our papers, please contact us at subscribers@cepr.org

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:7299

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://www.cepr.org/pubs/dps/DP7299.asp

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
Address: Centre for Economic Policy Research, 53--56 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DG
Series data maintained by ().