TY - JOUR
T1 - Do comprehensive and diverse childcare services affect women’s labour supply and well-being?
AU - Ito, Hirotaka
AU - Yamamoto, Isamu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This paper estimates the effect of comprehensive and diverse regional childcare services on Japanese women’s labour participation and well-being. On the basis of a sequence of childcare policies introduced in the early 2000s in Japan, we apply the difference-in-differences method. Our empirical results show that these services had positive heterogeneous effects on women’s labour supply in terms of extensive and intensive margins, depending on their employment type. Furthermore, we find a mixed result that the availability of such childcare services deteriorated the subjective well-being of regular employees possibly due to the increased working hours, but improved that of nonregular employees possibly due to the increased participation in the labour market.
AB - This paper estimates the effect of comprehensive and diverse regional childcare services on Japanese women’s labour participation and well-being. On the basis of a sequence of childcare policies introduced in the early 2000s in Japan, we apply the difference-in-differences method. Our empirical results show that these services had positive heterogeneous effects on women’s labour supply in terms of extensive and intensive margins, depending on their employment type. Furthermore, we find a mixed result that the availability of such childcare services deteriorated the subjective well-being of regular employees possibly due to the increased working hours, but improved that of nonregular employees possibly due to the increased participation in the labour market.
KW - Quality/variety of childcare services
KW - difference-in-differences
KW - women’s employment
KW - women’s health condition
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U2 - 10.1080/13504851.2021.1887802
DO - 10.1080/13504851.2021.1887802
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85102206333
JO - Applied Economics Letters
JF - Applied Economics Letters
SN - 1350-4851
ER -