Preschool Availability and Female Labor Force Participation : Evidence from Indonesia

Halim, Daniel ; Johnson, Hillary ; Perova, Elizaveta

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: FEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION;    PRESCHOOL;    LABOR MARKET;    WOMEN IN LABOR FORCE;    GENDER;   

RP-ID  :  123476

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Female labor force participation (FLFP)in Indonesia lags behind other countries in the region andhas remained more or less unchanged since 1990. Descriptiveevidence by the same authors points to unmet childcare needsas one constraint on FLFP. In this paper, we provide thefirst estimates of the impact of childcare availability onFLFP in Indonesia. Our findings suggest that access topublic preschools leads to higher employment of mothers ofage-eligible children, but access to private preschool doesnot. Specifically, an additional public preschool per 1,000children raises employment of mothers of age-eligiblechildren by 6.9 percentage points. This represents a 13.3percent improvement from the average work participation at52 percent.