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

Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics

Table 7 Difference-in-differences estimates of the impact of the enforcement of maternity leave on maternal employment

Test	Active	High part-time	Full-time
Paid maternity leave	− 0.01	− 0.03	− 0.00
	(− 0.50)	(− 1.64)	(− 0.12)
	19,744	19,744	19,744
Enforcement of after-school care	0.00	0.02	0.01
	(0.07)	(0.91)	(0.74)
	34,431	34,431	34,431

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, the 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