Public day care and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Chile
Author
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Medrano Vera, Patricia
Admission date
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2017-05-19T20:03:55Z
Available date
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2017-05-19T20:03:55Z
Publication date
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2009
Cita de ítem
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Series Documentos de Trabajo, No. 306 Diciembre, 2009
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Identifier
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https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/144031
Abstract
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Public day care centers in Chile have increased in 240% between 2005 and 2007. This paper
uses this huge increase in public day care supply for infants of poor families to analyze its impact
on Female Labor Force Participation. The magnitude of the expansion is used as a quasi-natural
experiment, where different geographic areas and income groups were affected differently. Using
mean differences I find a positive effect on Labor Force Participation of 2.6-10 percentage points
which coincides with previous findings for Chile and the local policy common sense. After controlling
for observable individual and family characteristics I don’t find any significant effect for the
eligible mothers. As a robustness check I also use alternative outcome measures like employment
and hours of work and I am not able to find a positive statistically significant effect. Therefore,
I conclude that it is not possible yet to infer that this policy has had this desired effect.
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Lenguage
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en
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Publisher
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Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios