Grandmothers and the Gender Gap in the Mexican Labor Market
This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability using the timing of death of grandmothers--the primary childcare providers in Mexico--as identifying variation. I use a triple-difference to disentangle the effect of coinhabiting grandmothers' deaths due to their impact on childcare from their effects due to alternative mechanisms. Through their impact on childcare availability, grandmothers' deaths reduce mothers' employment rate by 12 percentage points (27 percent) and do not affect fathers' employment rate. The negative effect on mothers' employment is smaller where public daycare is more available, or private daycare or schools are more affordable.
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| Language: | English |
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Inter-American Development Bank
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| Subjects: | Children, Child Care Quality, Labor, Population Aging, Employment Rate, Women, Gender Gap, Primary Education, Female Labor Force, D10 - Household Behavior and Family Economics: General, J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply, J16 - Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination, J24 - Human Capital • Skills • Occupational Choice • Labor Productivity, Triple-difference;Motherhood penalty;Childcare;Mexico, |
| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004208 https://publications.iadb.org/en/grandmothers-and-gender-gap-mexican-labor-market |
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