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Petra Thiemann . Photo

Petra Thiemann

Associate senior lecturer

Petra Thiemann . Photo

After-School Care and Parents' Labor Supply

Author

  • Petra Thiemann
  • Michael Lechner
  • Christina Felfe

Summary, in English

Does the provision of after-school care promote maternal employment and thus help to foster gender equality in labor supply? We address this question by exploiting variation in cantonal (state) regulations of after-school care provision in Switzerland. To establish exogeneity of cantonal regulations with respect to employment opportunities and preferences of the population, we restrict our analysis to confined regions along cantonal borders. While no impact of the after-school care provision on parental employment exists overall, we find a positive impact on the full-time employment of mothers.

Publishing year

2016

Language

English

Pages

64-75

Publication/Series

Labour Economics

Volume

42

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Economics

Keywords

  • Childcare
  • Parental labor supply
  • Instrumental variable method
  • J13
  • J22
  • C14

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0927-5371