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

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

Table 6 Difference-in-differences estimates of the impact of the reform on fertility rates, use of institutional childcare and paternal employment

Fertility	Institutional childcare use	Paternal participation	Paternal high part-time	Paternal full-time
− 0.00	0.02	0.01	0.00	0.01
(− 0.12)	(0.77)	(0.52)	(0.29)	(0.54)
43,519	19,017	39,416	39,416	39,416

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. Controls include age, education, marital status, nationality, number of children and income of other family members. The difference-in-differences corresponds to a model with controls, cantons and years fixed effects and clustered standard errors at the cantonal level. T-statistics are reported in parenthesis above the number of observations