From: Childcare and maternal part-time employment: a natural experiment using Swiss cantons
Year | Total | Treated canton | Control canton | ||
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Before | After | Before | After | ||
Maternal age | |||||
20–30 | 36.70 | 41.07 | 30.67 | 43.48 | 31.05 |
31–40 | 58.27 | 55.87 | 62.40 | 53.78 | 61.68 |
41–50 | 5.03 | 3.06 | 6.93 | 2.74 | 7.27 |
Maternal education | |||||
Lower secondary | 15.30 | 18.26† | 14.89† | 16.06† | 13.23† |
Upper secondary | 61.80 | 66.87† | 55.23 | 69.60† | 55.10 |
Tertiary | 22.90 | 14.87 | 29.88† | 14.34 | 31.67† |
Number of children under 4 years old | |||||
1 | 80.09 | 80.72 | 79.65 | 80.16 | 79.93 |
2 | 19.08 | 18.34 | 19.44 | 19.07 | 19.31 |
3 or more | 0.83 | 0.94 | 0.91 | 0.76 | 0.77 |
Number of children aged 4 to 15 | |||||
0 | 54.19 | 51.47 | 55.91 | 53.58 | 55.34 |
1 | 31.98 | 32.70 | 30.77 | 32.05 | 32.15 |
2 | 11.21 | 13.22 | 10.73 | 11.59 | 10.05 |
3 or more | 2.62 | 2.60 | 2.59 | 2.78 | 2.47 |
Married | 89.35 | 92.35 | 86.66 | 92.91 | 85.79 |
Swiss | 69.14 | 71.03† | 62.26† | 75.07† | 66.03† |
Single mothers | 2.60 | 1.95 | 3.34 | 1.85 | 3.29 |
Income of other family members | 74,319 | 64,508 | 72,044 | 72,456 | 82,384 |
N (unweighted) | 43,519 | 4567 | 11,283 | 7062 | 20,607 |