Preschoolers Enrolled and Mothers at Work? The Effects of Universal Prekindergarten

By Maria D. Fitzpatrick. Journal of Labor Economics, 2008

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Childcare subsidies and labour supply - Evidence from a large Dutch reform (2015, background): “…why the effect for women in couples is bigger than the effect found by e.g. Goux and Maurin (2010) and the effects of the US studies (Gelbach, 2002; Fitzpatrick, 2010, 2012), noting that for the US studies we should compare the treatment effects with e.g. our back-of-the-envelope calculation of…”
Children and the Remaining Gender Gaps in the Labor Market (2020, unknown): “Fitzpatrick (2010) uses a regression discontinuity framework and finds that access to universal pre-K in Georgia and Oklahoma in the 1990s increases statewide preschool enrollment significantly, but has little effect on the labor supply of most women.”
Grandparents’ Childcare and Female Labor Force Participation (2013, background): “2Some examples of literature on subsidized childcare and mother’s labor force participation are Fitzpatrick (2012, 2010), Cascio (2009), Baker et al. (2008), and Gelbach (2002).”
The Impacts of Expanding Access to High-Quality Preschool Education (2013, methodology): “Using a regression-discontinuity (RD) design similar to that used in the Tulsa studies, Fitzpatrick (2010) finds no statistically significant positive impacts of a child’s eligibility for state-funded preschool on his or her mother’s chances of working.”