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Delaying School Entry: Short- and Longer-Term Effects on Mothers' Employment

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  • Anna Zhu
  • Bruce Bradbury

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type="main" xml:id="ecor12179-abs-0001"> Mothers' short- and longer-term employment patterns may be influenced by their child's entry to school. This paper assesses these relationships, adopting an identification strategy that draws upon school entry cut-off rules, which imply that children whose birthdates are one day apart, but lie on either side of the cut-off date, can begin school one year apart. We find that this variation has a significant initial impact on mothers' employment, but this effect quickly disappears, suggesting little evidence of longer-term employment impacts of mothers' absence from the workforce when they have young children.

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  • Anna Zhu & Bruce Bradbury, 2015. "Delaying School Entry: Short- and Longer-Term Effects on Mothers' Employment," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 91(293), pages 233-246, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecorec:v:91:y:2015:i:293:p:233-246
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    1. Suziedelyte, Agne & Zhu, Anna, 2015. "Does early schooling narrow outcome gaps for advantaged and disadvantaged children?," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 45(C), pages 76-88.
    2. Selina Gangl & Martin Huber, 2021. "From homemakers to breadwinners? How mandatory kindergarten affects maternal labour market outcomes," Papers 2111.14524, arXiv.org, revised Mar 2022.
    3. Gangl, Selina & Huber, Martin, 2021. "From homemakers to breadwinners? How mandatory kindergarten affects maternal labour market attachment," VfS Annual Conference 2019 (Leipzig): 30 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Democracy and Market Economy 203636, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association, revised 2021.

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