Does Childcare Support Stimulate Women’s Employment?

Authors

Masako Kamada, Japan University of EconomicsFollow
Kazuyasu Kawasaki, Chuo UniversityFollow

Keywords

EBPM, causal inference, female labor force participation

Publication Date

3-29-2024

Abstract

A childcare support policy was implemented as part of gender equality and countermeasures to the falling birthrate in Japan. One of the childcare support policies was provided preschool service free of charge in October 2019.

In this paper, we analyze whether this childcare cost reduction policy was effective or not. Especially, we focus on whether this childcare support policy contribute to accelerate female labor force participation or not. As a result of our analysis, we show childcare cost reduction policy is ineffective of female labor force participation.

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Recommended Citation

Kamada, Masako and Kawasaki, Kazuyasu (2024) "Does Childcare Support Stimulate Women’s Employment?," Japanese Society and Culture: Vol. 6, Article 9.
Available at: https://gensoken.toyo.ac.jp/japanese-society-and-culture/vol6/iss1/9