The Effect of Child Preschool Education on Labor Force Participation of Married Women of Childbearing Age

In the context of decline in working-age population and exhaustion demographic dividend China, how to increase supply labor has become an issue critical economic development. Optimizing preschool education system enhancing accessibility high-quality low-cost pre-primary schooling help free married women from childcare, boost their force participation, thus, augment labor. This study discovers that participation rate who enroll all preschool-age children kindergartens is 1.32 times those do not so; for working women, attendance kids can time by four hours per week. After classifying sample according level household income type Hukou (registered permanent residence), it finds child more significantly raise employment probability high-income families prominently with rural Hukou.