Arbeitspapier

Access to Formal Childcare for Toddlers and Parental Employment and Earnings

This study examines the effect of availability of accredited childcare centers, the most popular category of publicly licensed childcare centers in Japan, on mothers' employment and earnings. We focus on mothers with children less than two years old, most of whom are returning from parental leave to full-time work under excess demand for center-based childcare. We construct an instrument from the first-round assignment process of April enrollment and find that the enrollment to an accredited childcare center increases the employment rate of mothers of zero- and one-year-old children by 40.3 and 18.8 percentage points, respectively. The effect of such enrollment on mothers' annual salary is mostly explained by the extensive margin.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 16880

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
Time Allocation and Labor Supply
Publicly Provided Goods: General
Thema
childcare demand
childcare cost
maternal labor supply

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Fukai, Taiyo
Kondo, Ayako
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2024

Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Fukai, Taiyo
  • Kondo, Ayako
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2024

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