Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers’ labor force … participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the … was the effect of the reform’s implicit subsidy to the cost of childcare on the opportunity cost of mothers’ time. We also …

Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing … regression discontinuity estimator based on children’s birth months, we find a sizable effect of childcare attendance on women …’s labor market outcomes, including their total annual wages, household income, and poverty status. The effects of childcare …