Parents’ effective time endowment and divorce: Evidence from extended school days

IF 4.8 1区 经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS
María Padilla-Romo , Cecilia Peluffo , Mariana Viollaz
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Abstract

Policies that extend the school day in elementary school provide an implicit childcare subsidy for families. As such, they can affect parents’ time allocation and family dynamics. This paper examines how extending the school day affects families by focusing on marriage dissolution. We exploit the staggered adoption of a policy that extended the availability of full-time elementary schools across different municipalities in Mexico. Using administrative data on divorces, we find that extending the school day by 3.5 h leads to a significant increase in divorce rates. Moreover, the effect grows with every year of municipalities’ exposure to full-time schooling. The effects are largely driven by municipalities with non-traditional social norms about marriage, divorce, and women’s priority to jobs, and by women in households with school-age children. Increased female labor force participation due to the availability of childcare is likely to be one of the mechanisms that relaxed restrictions on marriage dissolution.
父母有效时间禀赋与离婚:来自延长上学时间的证据
延长小学上学时间的政策为家庭提供了隐性的托儿补贴。因此,他们可以影响父母的时间分配和家庭动态。本文以婚姻解体为重点,探讨了延长上学时间对家庭的影响。我们利用交错采用的一项政策,扩大了墨西哥不同城市的全日制小学的可用性。利用有关离婚的行政数据,我们发现上学时间延长3.5小时会导致离婚率显著上升。此外,随着市政当局接受全日制教育的人数逐年增加,这种影响也在增加。造成这种影响的主要原因是,市政当局对婚姻、离婚、女性优先就业等问题有着非传统的社会规范,以及家庭中有学龄儿童的女性。由于有了儿童保育,女性劳动参与率增加,这可能是解除婚姻限制的机制之一。
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139
审稿时长
70 days
期刊介绍: The Journal of Public Economics aims to promote original scientific research in the field of public economics, focusing on the utilization of contemporary economic theory and quantitative analysis methodologies. It serves as a platform for the international scholarly community to engage in discussions on public policy matters.
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