기사
Revising Our Thinking About the Relationship Between Maternal Labor Supply and Preschool
- 개인저자
- Maria Donovan Fitzpatrick
- 수록페이지
- 583-612 p.
- 발행일자
- 2012.07.22
- 출판사
- University of Wisconsin Press
초록
Many argue that childcare costs limit the labor supply of mothers, though existing evidence has been mixed. Using a child’s eligibility for public kindergarten in a regression discontinuity instrumental variables framework, I estimate how use of a particular subsidy, public school, affects maternal labor supply. I find public school enrollment increases only the employment of single mothers without additional young children. I compare this result to previous work, focusing on striking increases in a similar setting but earlier period (Gelabch 2002). Differences in the population of mothers, labor supply, and patterns of lifecycle events likely drive the discrepancy in results.