Does formal child care availability for 0-3 year olds boost mothers' employment rate? Panel data based evidence from Belgium
In 2003, a new multi-annual program aimed at increasing the availability of formal child care for 0-3 year old children was launched 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 higher employment rate for women with at least one child under 3. To this end, we use a difference-in-differences approach based on municipality-level panel data, taking advantage of the fact that the increase in availability of formal child care differed greatly across municipalities. We find that the raise in... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | working paper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2015 |
Schlagwörter: | Child care / Maternal employment / Difference-in-differences / Random trend model / Business & economic sciences / Special economic topics (health / labor / transportation.) / Sciences économiques & de gestion / Domaines particuliers de l’économie (santé / travail / transport.) |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27371507 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/183916 |