Asai, Yukiko; Kambayashi, Ryo; Tanaka, Atsuko; … - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2014
We estimate the causal effects of childcare availability on the maternal employment rate using prefecture panel data …: the employment rate of mothers in nuclear households increases with childcare availability, while that of mothers in three … decomposition indicates that the increase in childcare availability raised the maternal employment rate by about two percentage …