Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/203528 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2019: 30 Jahre Mauerfall - Demokratie und Marktwirtschaft - Session: Labor Economics IV No. B20-V2
Publisher: 
ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel, Hamburg
Abstract: 
This paper examines the effect of an expansion of subsidized early child care on maternal labor market outcomes. It contributes to the literature by analyzing, apart from the employment rate and agreed working hours, preferred working hours. Semi-parametric difference-in-differences estimation based on survey data from the German Micro Census results in positive effects on the employment rate, as well as on agreed and preferred working hours. As agreed and preferred working hours adjust in line with each other, expansion of early child care can tap labour market potentials beyond those of currently underemployed mothers. Moreover, conditional effects show that especially better educated and non-single mothers respond to the reform.
Subjects: 
early child care
maternal labor supply
semi-parametric difference-in-differences
subsidized child care
working hour preferences
JEL: 
J21
J22
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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