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52 lines
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YAML
cite: Hardoy2015
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author: Hardoy, I., & Schøne, P.
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year: 2015
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title: "Enticing even higher female labor supply: The impact of cheaper day care"
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publisher: Review of Economics of the Household
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uri: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-013-9215-8
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pubtype: article
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discipline: economics
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country: Norway
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period: 1995-2006
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maxlength: 48
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targeting: implicit
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group: mothers
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data: Norwegian Labor and Welfare Service (NAV); Register for Employers and Employees
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design: quasi-experimental
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method: triple-difference approach
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sample: 200_530
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unit: individual
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representativeness: national
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causal: 1 # 0 correlation / 1 causal
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theory:
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limitations: simultaneous capacity extension may bias results
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observation:
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- intervention: subsidy (childcare)
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institutional: 1
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structural: 1
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agency: 0
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inequality: gender; education; migration
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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: employment; hours worked
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findings: child care price reduction increased female labour supply (about 5pct); no impact on mothers already participating in labour market; stronger impact on low-education mothers, low-income households; no significant impact on immigrant mothers
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channels: day care expenditure larger part of low-income/-education households creating larger impact; may also be due to average lower employment rates for those households
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direction: 1 # -1 neg / 0 none / 1 pos
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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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A study on the labour force impacts for women of reductions in child care costs in Norway.
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It finds that overall the reductions in child care cost increased the female labour supply in the country (by about 5 per cent),
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while there were no significant impacts on mothers which already participated in the labour market.
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It also finds some internal heterogeneity, with the impact being strongest for low-education mothers and low-income households,
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a finding the authors expected due to day care expenditure representing a larger part of those households' budgets thus creating a larger impact.
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Though it may alternatively also be generated by the lower average pre-intervention employment rate for those households.
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Interestingly when disaggregating by native and immigrant mothers there is only a significant impact on native mothers,
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though the authors do not form an inference on why this difference would be.
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A limitation of the study is that there was a simultaneous child care capacity increase in the country,
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which may bias the labour market results due to being affected by both the cost reduction and the capacity increase.
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