Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/290058 
Year of Publication: 
2022
Series/Report no.: 
IDB Working Paper Series No. IDB-WP-1337
Publisher: 
Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Washington, DC
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
Gender gap
Triple-difference
Motherhood penalty
Childcare
Mexico
JEL: 
D10
J22
J16
J24
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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