@article{discovery10061461, publisher = {WILEY}, journal = {KYKLOS}, note = {Copyright {\copyright} 2019 The Authors. Kyklos Published by John Wiley \& Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.}, title = {School Hours and Maternal Labor Supply}, pages = {118--151}, volume = {72}, number = {1}, year = {2019}, month = {February}, abstract = {This paper examines the effect of extending the primary school day on maternal labor supply. I exploit the staggered nature of the recent German reform to extend school hours and assess whether or not gaining access to a full day school increases the likelihood that mothers enter into the labor market or extend their hours worked if already employed. I use the German Socio-Economic Panel data set (GSOEP) and link it to a self-collected school-level data set with geographical information software (GIS). Using a flexible difference-in-difference approach in the estimation of linear probability and logit models, I find that the policy has a statistically significant effect of approximately five percentage points at the extensive margin, drawing more women into the labor market. I find no significant effect of the policy at the intensive margin; women who were already working do not extend their hours worked. This has implications for policies to extend the school day that do not correspond to the working day.}, issn = {1467-6435}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12195}, author = {Shure, N} }