Please join us if you can.

Laëtitia Renée from the University of Montreal will be presenting her paper “The Impact of After-School Care on Maternal Income: Evidence from Canadian Administrative Data” on Thursday, March 7th, from 11 am to 12:30 pm in STH201.

Abstract:

We study the impact of affordable after-school care programs on the labor market outcomes of mothers. Specifically, we analyze the effects of a policy implemented in Quebec (Canada) in 1998, which reduced the costs and expanded the availability of after-school care programs for primary school children. We use tax return data and a triple difference strategy to identify the causal effects of the policy. Ten years after the policy implementation, we find an average increase in after-school care use of 46 school days. This increase is associated with a significant 12% increase in labor income for mothers with primary school children.