"Who'll take the chair?" Maternal employment effects of a Polish (pre)school reform.

Autor/inn/en	Akgündüz, Yusuf Emre; Huizen, Thomas van; Plantenga, Janneke
Titel	"Who'll take the chair?" Maternal employment effects of a Polish (pre)school reform.
Quelle	In: Empirical economics, 61 (2021) 2, S. 1097-1133 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1435-8921
DOI	10.1007/s00181-020-01877-5
URN	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-75200-3
Schlagwörter	Mutterschaft; Bildungspolitik; Vorschule; Beschäftigungseffekt; Erwerbsbeteiligung; Polen
Abstract	This study examines the impact of preschool availability on the employment of mothers of preschool-aged children. We exploit a transitional phase of a 2009 Polish education reform that simultaneously lowered the primary school age from 7 to 6 and provided a statutory right to preschool to 5-year-olds. As a significant share of 6-year-old children moved into primary schools a year earlier, their preschool seats effectively became available for younger children. The reform thereby led to a substantial rise in the number of available preschool seats for 3- to 5-year-olds. Using regional variation in the degree of preschool expansion, we estimate the impact of the increased availability of preschool seats on maternal employment. Our results indicate a significant and sizable employment effect: a 10% points increase in the ratio of preschool seats to preschool-aged children increases maternal employment by around 4.2% points. The effect seems to be concentrated among highly educated mothers and mothers with a youngest child of age three.
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2022/1