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Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing … latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey spanning the early to mid-2010s. Addressing endogeneity issues … with a regression discontinuity estimator based on children's birth months, the paper finds a sizable effect of childcare …
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estimate the elasticity of maternal employment to preschool access. The analysis finds that an additional public preschool per … 1,000 children increases the work participation of mothers of preschool age eligible children by 11-16 percent from the … being hindered by a lack of affordable childcare services in the country? This paper exploits the joint variations in …
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This paper reviews the empirical literature on the existence and impact of gender discriminatory laws on women's outcomes across various domains (categories) that constitute the Women in Business and the Law measure of gender inequality. The evidence to date suggests that there are significant...
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Balkans, with particular attention to the intervening role of childcare provided by grandparents in extended families. To … estimates for mothers show that they increase labor supply, especially hours worked per week and the likelihood of working off …: childcare provided by non-parental adults in extended families and greater financial costs of maintaining more children …
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This study aims to improve the understanding of the barriers and enabling factors determining the demand for childcare … in Mexico City. The study is based on focus group discussions and individual in-depth interviews with mothers and fathers … parents in Mexico City, decisions in favor of or against the use of childcare are based on: (1) the interplay between women …
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. Employment and education are identified as the two most important causal channels through which electrification enables …
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This paper offers for the first time a global picture of gender discrimination by the law as it affects women's economic opportunity and charts the evolution of legal inequalities over five decades. Using the World Bank's newly extended Women, Business and the Law database, the paper documents...
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identify its main determinants. For that purpose, the paper estimates a probit model with data from the National Employment …, women's educational attainment can offset any individual or household obstacle to women's employability, and childcare … availability significantly supports mothers' employability …
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