The Impact of Pre-Primary Enrolment on Maternal Labour Supply in South Africa
(2016) NEKN01 20161Department of Economics
- Abstract
- I provide evidence on the impact of pre-primary school expansion on maternal labour supply in the context of South Africa. I draw on administrative data from the South African National Census in 2001 and 2011, and a Community Survey in 2007, to extract household information. My identification strategy exploits the staggered timing and intensity in the expansion of pre-primary school facilities across municipalities in an instrumental-variables regression. I find a robust impact from the implicit child care subsidy induced by the expansion on maternal labour supply ranging from 10.4% to 13.7%. My findings suggest that early childhood development reforms aimed at raising pre-primary enrolment rates can go beyond the scope of the child,... (More)
- I provide evidence on the impact of pre-primary school expansion on maternal labour supply in the context of South Africa. I draw on administrative data from the South African National Census in 2001 and 2011, and a Community Survey in 2007, to extract household information. My identification strategy exploits the staggered timing and intensity in the expansion of pre-primary school facilities across municipalities in an instrumental-variables regression. I find a robust impact from the implicit child care subsidy induced by the expansion on maternal labour supply ranging from 10.4% to 13.7%. My findings suggest that early childhood development reforms aimed at raising pre-primary enrolment rates can go beyond the scope of the child, raising incentives for women to actively take part in the labour market. (Less)
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- Wallström, Erik LU
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- organization
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- NEKN01 20161
- year
- 2016
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- language
- English
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- 8889984
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@misc{8889984, abstract = {{I provide evidence on the impact of pre-primary school expansion on maternal labour supply in the context of South Africa. I draw on administrative data from the South African National Census in 2001 and 2011, and a Community Survey in 2007, to extract household information. My identification strategy exploits the staggered timing and intensity in the expansion of pre-primary school facilities across municipalities in an instrumental-variables regression. I find a robust impact from the implicit child care subsidy induced by the expansion on maternal labour supply ranging from 10.4% to 13.7%. My findings suggest that early childhood development reforms aimed at raising pre-primary enrolment rates can go beyond the scope of the child, raising incentives for women to actively take part in the labour market.}}, author = {{Wallström, Erik}}, language = {{eng}}, note = {{Student Paper}}, title = {{The Impact of Pre-Primary Enrolment on Maternal Labour Supply in South Africa}}, year = {{2016}}, }