微观经济与数字经济教研室学术讲座

报告题目：Tightening the Work Requirement for Subsidized Childcare and Maternal Employment Outcomes
报  告 人：张宏亮（浙江大学新百人计划研究员（一类））
主  持 人：吴贾（中山大学岭南学院 教授）
时      间：2024年1月6日（周一）下午14:30
地      点：岭南堂伍沾德会议室204
语      言：中英文

摘要：
       In this paper, we study the effects of a Dutch childcare reform that tightened access to subsidised childcare on gender inequality in the labour market. Before 2011, as long as both parents were working, Dutch families were entitled to subsidised childcare for children under age 4 with unconstrained maximum hours. In 2012, a childcare reform restricted the maximum hours of subsidised childcare to 140% of hours worked of the least working parent. We employ a triple-difference strategy that combines variation in exposure to the 2012 reform across time and families with and without a toddler-age child. We find the reform has aggravated gender inequality in labor supply within the household. Restricting access to subsidized childcare led to a sizable 11.5 percentage point reduction in the labor force attachment for mothers from the affected families, but had much smaller and insignificant effects for fathers.

报告人简介：
 

       张宏亮现任浙江大学经济学院新百人计划研究员（一类），博士生导师。于2009年获得美国麻省理工学院博士学位。此前，他分别于2003年和2001年获得美国明尼苏达大学硕士学位和北京大学学士学位。加入浙江大学前，他曾先后执教香港中文大学和香港浸会大学。他主要从事经济学微观实证研究，特别是因果推断方法在劳动经济学、公共经济学、发展经济学、城市经济学等领域的应用。其研究成果发表于权威经济学综合期刊Journal of European Economic Association，International Economic Review以及Journal of Public Economics，Journal of Development Economics（2篇），Journal of Urban Economics，Economics of Education Review等顶尖领域期刊。

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