The Effect of Child's School Entry on Maternal Employment: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from South Korea
- Authors
- Choi, Jaehee; Jung, Haeil
- Issue Date
- 11월-2017
- Publisher
- WILEY
- Keywords
- maternal employment; public school enrolment; regression discontinuity design; work-family conflict
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, v.29, no.8, pp.1075 - 1105
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- SSCI
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- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Volume
- 29
- Number
- 8
- Start Page
- 1075
- End Page
- 1105
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/81847
- DOI
- 10.1002/jid.3312
- ISSN
- 0954-1748
- Abstract
- Public school is a form of highly subsidized, universal childcare and thus an important aspect of childcare policies. We examine the impact of a child's school entry on maternal employment in South Korea where mothers have been inactive in the labour force. We utilize a natural experiment where the school-age eligibility requirement in South Korea generates an exogenous variation in the cost of childcare and lends itself to a regression discontinuity design. Our findings suggest that for women with low levels of own or spouse's education, enrolling their children in school leads to a sizeable increase in labour force participation. Copyright (c) 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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