Access to Head Start and maternal labor supply: experimental and quasi-experimental evidence

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Authors and Corporations:	Wikle, Jocelyn (Author), Wilson, Riley (Author)
Other Authors:	Wilson, Riley [Author]
Type of Resource:	E-Book
Language:	English
published:	Bonn, Germany IZA - Institute of Labor Economics November 2021
Series:	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit: Discussion paper series ; no. 14880
Subjects:	Head Start child care subsidies maternal labor supply Head Start child care subsidies maternal labor supply
Source:	Verbunddaten SWB Lizenzfreie Online-Ressourcen

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Summary:	We explore how access to Head Start impacts maternal labor supply. By relaxing child care constraints, public preschool options like Head Start might lead mothers to reallocate time between employment, child care, and other activities. Using the 1990s enrollment and funding expansions and the 2002 Head Start Impact Study randomized control trial, we show that Head Start increases short-run employment and wage earnings of single mothers. The increase in labor supply does not appear to reduce quality parent-child interactions. Viewing Head Start as a bundle of family-level treatments can shed new light on the impacts of the program beyond children.
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 91 Seiten); Illustrationen