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Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 05/07/2016 de 12:30 à 13:30
Campus jourdan,Bâtiment G, Rez de chaussée, Salle 8
EFFENTERRE Clémentine (PSE)
How Does Maternal Labor Supply Respond to Changes in Children’s School Schedule?
écrit avec Emma Duchini
In this paper we analyze mothers’ labor supply response to a reorganization of children’s school schedule. Until 2013, French children between two and eleven years old had their class time spread over four days and they did not go to school on Wednesday. In 2013 a national reform shortened each school day by an average of 45 minutes and reallocated the resulting three hours to Wednesday morning. We look at the short-run impact on mothers’ labor supply, exploiting variation in the implementation of this reform over time and across the age of the youngest child. We provide evidence of a reallocation of working hours over the week and no effect on the total number of hours worked. These results are driven by women who have a stronger bargaining power and face a low cost of flexibility at work.