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cite: Clark2019
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author: Clark, S., Kabiru, C. W., Laszlo, S., & Muthuri, S.
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year: 2019
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title: The Impact of Childcare on Poor Urban Women’s Economic Empowerment in Africa
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publisher: Demography
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uri: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-019-00793-3
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pubtype: article
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discipline: sociology
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country: Kenya
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period: 2015-2016
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maxlength: 12
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targeting: explicit
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group: mothers
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data: national administrative survey Nairobi Urban Health and Demographic Surveillance System
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design: experimental
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method: RCT
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sample: 738
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unit: individual
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representativeness: subnational, urban
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causal: 1 # 0 correlation / 1 causal
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theory: economic empowerment theory
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limitations: results restricted to 1 year; relatively high attrition rate
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observation:
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- intervention: subsidy (childcare)
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institutional: 0
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structural: 1
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agency: 0
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inequality: gender
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type: 1 # 0 vertical / 1 horizontal
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indicator: 1 # 0 absolute / 1 relative
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measures: employment probability difference
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findings: subsidy increased employment probability (8.5ppts) for poor married mothers
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channels: increased ability to work through lower childcare burden
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direction: 1
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significance: 2 # 0 nsg / 1 msg / 2 sg
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- intervention: subsidy (childcare)
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institutional: 0
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structural: 1
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agency: 0
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inequality: gender
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type: 1 # 0 vertical / 1 horizontal
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indicator: 0 # 0 absolute / 1 relative
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measures: hours worked
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findings: subsidy decreased hours worked without decreasing income for single mothers
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channels: allows shifting to jobs with more regular hours
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direction: -1 # -1 neg
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significance: 2 # 0 nsg / 1 msg / 2 sg
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notes:
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annotation: |
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An experimental study on the impacts of providing childcare vouchers to poor women in urban Kenya, estimating the impacts on their economic empowerment.
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The empowerment is measured through disaggregated analyses of maternal income, employment probability and hours worked.
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It finds that, for married mothers there was a significantly positive effect on employment probability and hours worked, suggesting their increased ability to work through lower childcare costs increasing personal agency.
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For single mothers, it finds a negative effect on hours worked, though with a stable income.
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The authors suggest this is due to single Kenyan mothers already working increased hours compared to married mothers, though the effect shows the ability of single mothers to shift to jobs with more regular hours, even if they are not compatible with childcare.
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Minor limitations of the study are its restriction to effects within a period of 1 year, and a somewhat significant attrition rate to the endline survey.
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