Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from Indonesia

Female labor force participation (FLFP) in Indonesia lags behind other countries in the region and has remained more or less unchanged since 1990. Descriptive evidence by the same authors points to unmet childcare needs as one constraint on FLFP. I...

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Main Authors:	Halim, Daniel, Johnson, Hillary, Perova, Elizaveta
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION PRESCHOOL LABOR MARKET WOMEN IN LABOR FORCE GENDER
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/104221518802443897/Preschool-availability-and-female-labor-force-participation-evidence-from-Indonesia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29395

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spelling	okr-10986-293952021-09-11T05:10:43Z Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from Indonesia Halim, Daniel Johnson, Hillary Perova, Elizaveta FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION PRESCHOOL LABOR MARKET WOMEN IN LABOR FORCE GENDER Female labor force participation (FLFP) in Indonesia lags behind other countries in the region and has remained more or less unchanged since 1990. Descriptive evidence by the same authors points to unmet childcare needs as one constraint on FLFP. In this paper, we provide the first estimates of the impact of childcare availability on FLFP in Indonesia. Our findings suggest that access to public preschools leads to higher employment of mothers of age-eligible children, but access to private preschool does not. Specifically, an additional public preschool per 1,000 children raises employment of mothers of age-eligible children by 6.9 percentage points. This represents a 13.3 percent improvement from the average work participation at 52 percent. 2018-02-28T19:34:27Z 2018-02-28T19:34:27Z 2017-10 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/104221518802443897/Preschool-availability-and-female-labor-force-participation-evidence-from-Indonesia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29395 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Women in Development and Gender Study Economic & Sector Work East Asia and Pacific Indonesia
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spellingShingle	FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION PRESCHOOL LABOR MARKET WOMEN IN LABOR FORCE GENDER Halim, Daniel Johnson, Hillary Perova, Elizaveta Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from Indonesia
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description	Female labor force participation (FLFP) in Indonesia lags behind other countries in the region and has remained more or less unchanged since 1990. Descriptive evidence by the same authors points to unmet childcare needs as one constraint on FLFP. In this paper, we provide the first estimates of the impact of childcare availability on FLFP in Indonesia. Our findings suggest that access to public preschools leads to higher employment of mothers of age-eligible children, but access to private preschool does not. Specifically, an additional public preschool per 1,000 children raises employment of mothers of age-eligible children by 6.9 percentage points. This represents a 13.3 percent improvement from the average work participation at 52 percent.
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author	Halim, Daniel Johnson, Hillary Perova, Elizaveta
author_facet	Halim, Daniel Johnson, Hillary Perova, Elizaveta
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title	Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from Indonesia
title_short	Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from Indonesia
title_full	Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from Indonesia
title_fullStr	Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from Indonesia
title_full_unstemmed	Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from Indonesia
title_sort	preschool availability and female labor force participation : evidence from indonesia
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2018
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/104221518802443897/Preschool-availability-and-female-labor-force-participation-evidence-from-Indonesia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29395
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Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from Indonesia

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