abstract: 'I exploit the introduction of a policy package in France aimed at

  helping parents with the care of young children. The reform affected all

  households with pre-school age children and had two dimensions: a short

  stay-home subsidy for first-time mothers wishing to take-up parental

  leave and an increase in childcare subsidies for parents using

  childminders-the main formal care option in France. Importantly,

  policymakers did not explicitly intervene in the childcare

  infrastructures. I rely on a diff-in-diff empirical strategy to evaluate

  the labour market outcomes of mothers with pre-school age children in

  the short-run and the long-run. The reform had negligible effects in the

  short-run. In the long-run though, first-time mothers-and particularly

  the lower-educated group-took advantage of the parental leave subsidies

  to reduce their employment rate. This freed up formal childcare places

  and allowed middle-class educated mothers of two children to use the

  more generous childcare subsidies and therefore work more. The fact that

  the effects take time to materialise and do not appear at the aggregate

  level for the targeted population suggests that the policy did not

  induce any net increase in the supply of care places and simply led to a

  re-allocation of care modes among mothers of pre-school age children.'
author: de Muizon, Marc Jourdain
author-email: marcdemuizon@hotmail.com
author_list:
- family: de Muizon
  given: Marc Jourdain
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1007/s11150-020-09489-9
earlyaccessdate: JUN 2020
eissn: 1573-7152
files: []
issn: 1569-5239
journal: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS OF THE HOUSEHOLD
keywords: Labour supply; Maternity leave; Parental leave; Childcare subsidies
keywords-plus: 'YOUNG-CHILDREN; LABOR; MOTHERS; WORK; AVAILABILITY; EMPLOYMENT;

  OUTCOMES; REFORM; TIME'
language: English
month: SEP
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '33'
pages: 735-772
papis_id: 73d5f317845a613c8fa2caaa453bafbe
ref: Demuizon2020subsidiesparental
times-cited: '4'
title: 'Subsidies for parental leave and formal childcare: be careful what you wish
  for'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000537991600001
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '7'
volume: '18'
web-of-science-categories: Economics
year: '2020'