Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/300195 
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Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
CEBI Working Paper Series No. 13/24
Publisher: 
University of Copenhagen, Department of Economics, Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
This paper examines the effects of universal daycare on mothers' labor force participation, full-time employment, and earnings over their working lifetime. I exploit differential access to daycare caused by a roll-out of daycare centers across Denmark in combination with rich administrative data. Daycare availability has persistent effects on labor force participation and increases long-run earnings. Reduced fertility and parental separation are potential mediators behind the participation effects. For higher-educated mothers, participation effects diminish over time, whereas earnings effects prevail in the long run. These results suggest that labor market attachment during child-rearing years has important long-run economic consequences.
Subjects: 
child care
female labor supply
JEL: 
J13
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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