Do childcare policies increase maternal employment?

Childcare Effects on Maternal Employment: Evidence from Chile

Using a randomized experiment, this study examines whether offering afterschool care for children aged between 6 and 13 has an impact on labor market outcomes for women in Chile. The results show that program participation increases employment by 5% and labor force participation by 7%, while the intervention also generates substantial childcare substitution. The results also suggest that the pr...

Maternal employment, childcare and childhood overweight during infancy

This paper examines the relationship between maternal employment, childcare during infancy and the overweight status of pre-school children. Using data from the Infant Cohort of the Growing-Up in Ireland Survey, propensity score matching addresses the issue of potential selection bias, quantile regression allows the impact of both maternal employment and childcare to be examined throughout the ...

How Sibling Composition Affects Adolescent Schooling Outcomes When Welfare Reform Policies Increase Maternal Employment

Do Active Labor Market Policies Increase Employment? IMF Working Paper No. 03/234 (December 2003)

This Working Paper should not be reported as representing views of the IMF. The views expressed in this Working Paper are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the IMF or IMF policy. Working Papers describe research in progress by the author(s) and are published to elicit comments and to further debate. Using panel data for 15 industrial countries, active labor market...

When do Countercyclical Policies Increase Economic Stability?

In an influential paper, Friedman (1953) showed that even countercyclical fiscal or monetary policies can be destabilizing if they are weakly correlated with the state of the economy. I show that this surprising conclusion is sensitive to the way in which uncertainty is measured. If the size of fluctuations are measured using mean absolute deviation instead of variance, every countercyclical po...