Development Lunch

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Submitted by Brandon Eltiste on February 25, 2021
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Tuesday, March 2, 2021 - 12:30
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Pierre Biscaye, ARE
Madeline Duhon, Econ

Pierre: Impacts of Childcare on Labor Participation: Evidence from Kenya.

Madeline: TBD

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Pierre: A large body of evidence finds adverse impacts of household childcare needs on labor force participation, particularly for mothers, but the vast majority of this literature reports on high-income countries and largely urban settings. Lower-income and rural settings have different traditional childcare arrangements, so may experience different impacts of a shock to the household childcare burden. I use evidence from Covid-related school closures and partial reopenings in Kenya to evaluate how a shock to household childcare needs from these policies affects labor force