Legal right to childcare and maternal employment in Finland

dc.contributorAalto-yliopistofi
dc.contributorAalto Universityen
dc.contributor.authorHämälä, Hanna
dc.contributor.schoolKauppakorkeakoulufi
dc.contributor.schoolSchool of Businessen
dc.contributor.supervisorHuttunen, Kristiina
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-02T17:00:28Z
dc.date.available2025-06-02T17:00:28Z
dc.date.issued2025-05-18
dc.description.abstractThis paper studies the relationship between childcare access and maternal employment in the context of Finland’s 2016 childcare reform. The reform reduced access to municipally provided childcare for parents who were not both studying or working full-time. This paper uses a difference-in-differences approach to estimate the effects of the childcare reform on the employment and annual income of affected mothers. The results do not indicate any signif-icant effect on the labour market outcomes of mothers. Heterogeneity analysis does not find any subgroups whose outcomes were especially affected by the reform.en
dc.description.notificationAttachment notes Description: Stata do-file for replicating the regressions in the thesis Attachments: Dofile_Hanna_Hämälä_2025.rar
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttps://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/135882
dc.identifier.urnURN:NBN:fi:aalto-202506024142
dc.language.isoenen
dc.programmeMaster's Programme in Economicsen
dc.programme.majorEconomicsen
dc.subject.keywordmaternal employmenten
dc.subject.keywordchildcareen
dc.subject.keywordlabour supplyen
dc.subject.keywordpre-primary educationen
dc.subject.keywordsubsidized childcareen
dc.subject.keywordemployment rateen
dc.titleLegal right to childcare and maternal employment in Finlanden
dc.typeG2 Pro gradu, diplomityöfi
dc.type.ontasotMaster's thesisen
dc.type.ontasotMaisterin opinnäytetyöfi
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local.aalto.openaccessyes

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