“Who’ll take the chair?” Maternal employment effects of a Polish (pre)school reform
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21542452 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yusuf Emre Akgündüz (0000-0001-6171-5593, Sabancı Üniversitesi), Thomas Van Huizen (0000-0001-5486-2317, Utrecht University, corresponding author), Janneke Plantenga (Utrecht University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1097-1133 |
| Publication date | 2021-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Empirical Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0377-7332 • E-ISSN: 1435-8921 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s00181-020-01877-5 |
| OpenAlex | W3034782323 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 28 |
This study examines the impact of preschool availability on the employment of mothers of preschool-aged children. We exploit a transitional phase of a 2009 Polish education reform that simultaneously lowered the primary school age from 7 to 6 and provided a statutory right to preschool to 5-year-olds. As a significant share of 6-year-old children moved into primary schools a year earlier, their preschool seats effectively became available for younger children. The reform thereby led to a substantial rise in the number of available preschool seats for 3- to 5-year-olds. Using regional variation in the degree of preschool expansion, we estimate the impact of the increased availability of preschool seats on maternal employment. Our results indicate a significant and sizable employment effect: a 10% points increase in the ratio of preschool seats to preschool-aged children increases maternal employment by around 4.2% points. The effect seems to be concentrated among highly educated mothers and mothers with a youngest child of age three
Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Economics · Political science · Preschool education · Sociology · Statutory law · Demography · Early Childhood Education and Development · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare · Psychology · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |