Children living with disabilities and mother’s labor supply in developing countries: evidence from Argentina

A child’s disability increases childcare demands causing two opposing effects on the mother's labor supply: while some types of disability require additional time spent reducing labor supply, othersrequire additional expenses increasing labor supply. This paper studies the effect of a child...

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Autores principales: Carella, Laura Fernanda, Velázquez Battistessa, Cecilia, Porto, Natalia, Rucci, Ana Clara
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Publicado: 2024
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Ciencias Económicas
disability
child
female labor force participation
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1636852024-03-12T04:07:41Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/163685 Children living with disabilities and mother’s labor supply in developing countries: evidence from Argentina Carella, Laura Fernanda Velázquez Battistessa, Cecilia Porto, Natalia Rucci, Ana Clara 2024-03 2024-03-11T17:56:06Z en Ciencias Económicas disability child female labor force participation A child’s disability increases childcare demands causing two opposing effects on the mother's labor supply: while some types of disability require additional time spent reducing labor supply, othersrequire additional expenses increasing labor supply. This paper studies the effect of a child's disability on mothers' labor supply using data from the 2019-20 IPUMS MICS of Argentina. Four measures of disability are used: children with a functional disability (based on Washington Group criteria); children with functional difficulties for seeing, hearing, or walking; children with difficulties in the remaining functional domains; and children with a disability certificate or pension. The results suggest that having a child with disability certificate or pension reduces a mother's probability of participating in the labor force. No significant effect is found for mothers of a child with a functional disability. However, this arises from two opposing effects: a negative effect on mother’s labor supply of children with difficulties for seeing, hearing, or walking and a positive effect on mothers of children with difficulties in the remaining functional domains. The evidence also shows heterogeneous effects depending on the mother’s education. The (dis)incentive to participate is present for non-graduated mothers, while the effect is not statistically significant for graduated ones. Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales Articulo Documento de trabajo http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) application/pdf
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topic Ciencias Económicas
disability
child
female labor force participation
spellingShingle Ciencias Económicas
disability
child
female labor force participation
Carella, Laura Fernanda
Velázquez Battistessa, Cecilia
Porto, Natalia
Rucci, Ana Clara
Children living with disabilities and mother’s labor supply in developing countries: evidence from Argentina
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
disability
child
female labor force participation
description A child’s disability increases childcare demands causing two opposing effects on the mother's labor supply: while some types of disability require additional time spent reducing labor supply, othersrequire additional expenses increasing labor supply. This paper studies the effect of a child's disability on mothers' labor supply using data from the 2019-20 IPUMS MICS of Argentina. Four measures of disability are used: children with a functional disability (based on Washington Group criteria); children with functional difficulties for seeing, hearing, or walking; children with difficulties in the remaining functional domains; and children with a disability certificate or pension. The results suggest that having a child with disability certificate or pension reduces a mother's probability of participating in the labor force. No significant effect is found for mothers of a child with a functional disability. However, this arises from two opposing effects: a negative effect on mother’s labor supply of children with difficulties for seeing, hearing, or walking and a positive effect on mothers of children with difficulties in the remaining functional domains. The evidence also shows heterogeneous effects depending on the mother’s education. The (dis)incentive to participate is present for non-graduated mothers, while the effect is not statistically significant for graduated ones.
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author Carella, Laura Fernanda
Velázquez Battistessa, Cecilia
Porto, Natalia
Rucci, Ana Clara
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Velázquez Battistessa, Cecilia
Porto, Natalia
Rucci, Ana Clara
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title Children living with disabilities and mother’s labor supply in developing countries: evidence from Argentina
title_short Children living with disabilities and mother’s labor supply in developing countries: evidence from Argentina
title_full Children living with disabilities and mother’s labor supply in developing countries: evidence from Argentina
title_fullStr Children living with disabilities and mother’s labor supply in developing countries: evidence from Argentina
title_full_unstemmed Children living with disabilities and mother’s labor supply in developing countries: evidence from Argentina
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