Grandmothers and the Gender Gap in the Mexican Labor Market

Miguel Talamas Marcos

No 12151, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

Abstract: This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability using the timing of death of grandmothers--the primary childcare providers in Mexico--as identifying variation. I use a triple-difference to disentangle the effect of coinhabiting grandmothers' deaths due to their impact on childcare from their effects due to alternative mechanisms. Through their impact on childcare availability, grandmothers' deaths reduce mothers' employment rate by 12 percentage points (27 percent) and do not affect fathers' employment rate. The negative effect on mothers' employment is smaller where public daycare is more available, or private daycare or schools are more affordable.

Keywords: Triple-difference; Motherhood penalty; Childcare; Mexico (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D10 J16 J22 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-04
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english ... can-Labor-Market.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Grandmothers and the gender gap in the Mexican labor market (2023)
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: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:idb:brikps:12151

DOI: 10.18235/0004208

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Felipe Herrera Library ().