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dc.titleGrandmothers and the Gender Gap in the Mexican Labor Market
dc.contributor.authorTalamas Marcos, Miguel Ángel
dc.contributor.orgunitDepartment of Research and Chief Economist
dc.coverageMexico
dc.date.available2022-04-25T00:04:00
dc.date.issue2022-04-25T00:04:00
dc.description.abstractThis 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.
dc.format.extent56
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004208
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Grandmothers-and-the-Gender-Gap-in-the-Mexican-Labor-Market.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectChildren
dc.subjectChild Care Quality
dc.subjectLabor
dc.subjectPopulation Aging
dc.subjectEmployment Rate
dc.subjectWomen
dc.subjectGender Gap
dc.subjectPrimary Education
dc.subjectFemale Labor Force
dc.subject.jelcodeD10 - Household Behavior and Family Economics: General
dc.subject.jelcodeJ22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
dc.subject.jelcodeJ16 - Economics of Gender • Non-labor Discrimination
dc.subject.jelcodeJ24 - Human Capital • Skills • Occupational Choice • Labor Productivity
dc.subject.keywordsTriple-difference;Motherhood penalty;Childcare;Mexico
dc.typeWorking Papers
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-WP-01337
idb.operationRG-K1415
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