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creators_name: Shure, N
title: School Hours and Maternal Labor Supply
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J81
note: 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.
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.
date: 2019-02-01
date_type: published
publisher: WILEY
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12195
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1601139
doi: 10.1111/kykl.12195
lyricists_name: Shure, Dominique
lyricists_id: SHURE67
actors_name: Allington-Smith, Dominic
actors_id: DAALL44
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: KYKLOS
volume: 72
number: 1
pagerange: 118-151
pages: 34
issn: 1467-6435
citation:        Shure, N;      (2019)    School Hours and Maternal Labor Supply.                   KYKLOS , 72  (1)   pp. 118-151.    10.1111/kykl.12195 <https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12195>.       Green open access   
 
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