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A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families

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  • Gibbs, Chloe

    (University of Notre Dame)

  • Wikle, Jocelyn

    (Brigham Young University)

  • Wilson, Riley

    (Brigham Young University)

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We leverage pronounced changes in the availability of public schooling for young children---through duration expansions to the kindergarten day---to better understand how an implicit childcare subsidy affects mothers and families. Exploiting full-day kindergarten variation across place and time from 1992 through 2022 and novel data on state-level policy changes, combined with a comparison of children of typical kindergarten age to older children, we measure effects on parental labor supply and family childcare expenses. Results suggest that families are responsive to these shifts. Full-day kindergarten expansions were responsible for as much as 24 percent of the growth in employment of mothers with kindergarten-aged children in this time frame.

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  • Gibbs, Chloe & Wikle, Jocelyn & Wilson, Riley, 2025. "A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families," IZA Discussion Papers 17969, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    • Handle: RePEc:iza:izadps:dp17969
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    Keywords

    maternal labor supply; kindergarten; public schooling;
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    JEL classification:

    • H75 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Government: Health, Education, and Welfare
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy
    • J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply

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