Child care; maternal employment; difference-in-differences; random trend model
Abstract :
[en] In 2003, a new multi-annual program aimed at increasing the availability of formal child care for 0-3 years old children was started in Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium. This paper is interested in evaluating if this increased availability of formal child care resulted in a larger employment rate for women with at least one child under 3 years old. To this end, we use a difference-in-differences approach based on municipality-level panel data, taking advantage of the fact that the increased availability of formal child care widely varied across municipalities. We find that the raise of child care availability significantly increased maternal employment rate, but to a lesser extent than expected, most likely due to a substantial crowding-out effect.
Disciplines :
Special economic topics (health, labor, transportation...)
Author, co-author :
Dujardin, Claire; IWEPS
Fonder, Muriel; IWEPS
Lejeune, Bernard ; Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC Liège : UER > Economie politique et microéconomie appliquée
Language :
English
Title :
Does formal child care availability for 0-3 year olds boost mothers' employment rate? Panel data based evidence from Belgium
Publication date :
March 2018
Journal title :
Annals of Economics and Statistics
ISSN :
1968-3863
eISSN :
2115-4430
Publisher :
Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (ADRES), Paris, France
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