Childcare and maternal part-time employment: a natural experiment using Swiss cantons

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

Table 5 Difference-in-differences estimates of the impact of the reform on the socio-demographic characteristics of mothers

Lower secondary educ.	Upper secondary educ.	Tertiary educ.	Married or cohabiting	No. of children 0–3	No. of children 4–15	Swiss nationality	Age	Income of other family members
− 0.01	0.03	− 0.02	0.02	0.00	− 0.02	0.00	− 0.19	− 1.19
(− 0.35)	(0.77)	(− 0.99)	(0.95)	(0.26)	(− 0.88)	(0.23)	(− 0.80)	(− 0.19)
43,519	43,519	43,519	43,519	43,519	43,519	43,519	43,519	43,519

Source: Swiss Labour Force Survey 1992–2014
The sample is restricted to mothers between 20 and 50 years of age with at least one child between 0 and 3 years of age. Depending on the disaggregation, controls include age, education, marital status, nationality, number of children and income of other family members in 1000 CHF. The difference-in-differences corresponds to a model with controls, cantons and years fixed effects and clustered standard errors. T-statistics are reported in parenthesis above the number of observations