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70 lines
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YAML
abstract: 'I exploit the introduction of a policy package in France aimed at
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helping parents with the care of young children. The reform affected all
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households with pre-school age children and had two dimensions: a short
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stay-home subsidy for first-time mothers wishing to take-up parental
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leave and an increase in childcare subsidies for parents using
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childminders-the main formal care option in France. Importantly,
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policymakers did not explicitly intervene in the childcare
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infrastructures. I rely on a diff-in-diff empirical strategy to evaluate
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the labour market outcomes of mothers with pre-school age children in
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the short-run and the long-run. The reform had negligible effects in the
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short-run. In the long-run though, first-time mothers-and particularly
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the lower-educated group-took advantage of the parental leave subsidies
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to reduce their employment rate. This freed up formal childcare places
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and allowed middle-class educated mothers of two children to use the
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more generous childcare subsidies and therefore work more. The fact that
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the effects take time to materialise and do not appear at the aggregate
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level for the targeted population suggests that the policy did not
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induce any net increase in the supply of care places and simply led to a
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re-allocation of care modes among mothers of pre-school age children.'
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author: de Muizon, Marc Jourdain
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author-email: marcdemuizon@hotmail.com
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author_list:
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- family: de Muizon
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given: Marc Jourdain
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1007/s11150-020-09489-9
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earlyaccessdate: JUN 2020
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eissn: 1573-7152
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files: []
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issn: 1569-5239
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journal: REVIEW OF ECONOMICS OF THE HOUSEHOLD
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keywords: Labour supply; Maternity leave; Parental leave; Childcare subsidies
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keywords-plus: 'YOUNG-CHILDREN; LABOR; MOTHERS; WORK; AVAILABILITY; EMPLOYMENT;
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OUTCOMES; REFORM; TIME'
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language: English
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month: SEP
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number: '3'
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number-of-cited-references: '33'
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pages: 735-772
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papis_id: 73d5f317845a613c8fa2caaa453bafbe
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ref: Demuizon2020subsidiesparental
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times-cited: '4'
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title: 'Subsidies for parental leave and formal childcare: be careful what you wish
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for'
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000537991600001
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usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
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usage-count-since-2013: '7'
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volume: '18'
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web-of-science-categories: Economics
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year: '2020'
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