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Table 8 Difference-in-differences estimates of the impact of the reform on maternal employment using alternative controls

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

Test

Active

High part-time

Full-time

1992–1998, 2006–2012

− 0.01

0.03*

0.00

(− 0.45)

(1.97)

(0.23)

25,371

25,371

25,371

Local labour markets

− 0.03

0.03

0.01

(− 1.45)

(1.63)

(0.78)

33,788

33,788

33,788

  1. Source: Swiss Labour Force Survey 1992–2014
  2. 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. * denotes statistical significance at the 0.05 level