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Does formal 0-3 years old child care availability boost employment rate of mothers ? Panel data based evidence from Belgium
Dujardin, Claire; Fonder, Muriel; Lejeune, Bernard
201633èmes Journées de Microéconomie Appliquée
 

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Keywords :
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 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 resultedin 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 child care availability significantly increased the maternal employment rate, but to a lesser extent than expected, most likely because of 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 > HEC-Ecole de gestion : UER > Economie politique et microéconomie appliquée
Language :
English
Title :
Does formal 0-3 years old child care availability boost employment rate of mothers ? Panel data based evidence from Belgium
Publication date :
03 June 2016
Number of pages :
15
Event name :
33èmes Journées de Microéconomie Appliquée
Event organizer :
Université de Franche-Comté, CRESE
Event place :
Besançon, France
Event date :
2 et 3 Juin 2016
Audience :
International
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