Effect of Lengthening the School Day on Mother's Labor Supply

This article examines how a policy oriented toward a specific group within the population can have collateral effects on the economic decisions of other groups. In 1996, the Chilean government approved the extension of the school day from half- to full-day school. This article exploits the quasi-exp...

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Main Authors:	Contreras, Dante, Sepúlveda, Paulina
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank 2019
Subjects:	LABOR SUPPLY CHILDCARE FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31476

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spelling	okr-10986-314762021-05-25T10:54:37Z Effect of Lengthening the School Day on Mother's Labor Supply Contreras, Dante Sepúlveda, Paulina LABOR SUPPLY CHILDCARE FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION This article examines how a policy oriented toward a specific group within the population can have collateral effects on the economic decisions of other groups. In 1996, the Chilean government approved the extension of the school day from half- to full-day school. This article exploits the quasi-experimental nature of the reform's implementation by time, municipality, and age targeting of the program in order to examine how the maternal labor supply is affected by the childcare subsidy implicit in the lengthening of the school day. Using data from the Chilean socioeconomic household survey and administrative data from the Ministry of Education for 1990–2011, we estimate that, on average, there is a 5 percent increase in labor participation and employment rates of single mothers with eligible children (between 8 and 13 years old) with no younger children, who are the group that would be mainly affected by the policy. No significant labor supply responses are detected among others mothers with eligible children. 2019-04-01T19:33:26Z 2019-04-01T19:33:26Z 2017-10-01 Journal Article World Bank Economic Review 1564-698X http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31476 CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank Publications & Research :: Journal Article Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean Chile
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description	This article examines how a policy oriented toward a specific group within the population can have collateral effects on the economic decisions of other groups. In 1996, the Chilean government approved the extension of the school day from half- to full-day school. This article exploits the quasi-experimental nature of the reform's implementation by time, municipality, and age targeting of the program in order to examine how the maternal labor supply is affected by the childcare subsidy implicit in the lengthening of the school day. Using data from the Chilean socioeconomic household survey and administrative data from the Ministry of Education for 1990–2011, we estimate that, on average, there is a 5 percent increase in labor participation and employment rates of single mothers with eligible children (between 8 and 13 years old) with no younger children, who are the group that would be mainly affected by the policy. No significant labor supply responses are detected among others mothers with eligible children.
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author	Contreras, Dante Sepúlveda, Paulina
author_facet	Contreras, Dante Sepúlveda, Paulina
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title	Effect of Lengthening the School Day on Mother's Labor Supply
title_short	Effect of Lengthening the School Day on Mother's Labor Supply
title_full	Effect of Lengthening the School Day on Mother's Labor Supply
title_fullStr	Effect of Lengthening the School Day on Mother's Labor Supply
title_full_unstemmed	Effect of Lengthening the School Day on Mother's Labor Supply
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publisher	Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the World Bank
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Effect of Lengthening the School Day on Mother's Labor Supply

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