讲座题目：Tightening the Work Requirement for Subsidized Childcare and Maternal Employment（收紧托育补贴的工作要求对母亲就业的影响）

主讲人：张宏亮  浙江大学

讲座时间：2025年04月03日15:30

讲座地点：学院440

讲座内容摘要：

We study the effects of a Dutch reform that tightened work requirements for subsidized childcare on maternal employment. Before 2011, Dutch families were entitled to unlimited subsidized childcare hours for children under age 4 if both parents worked. In 2012, a reform capped subsidized childcare hours at 140% of the hours worked by the parent who worked less. To address potential adjustments in work and childcare hours after the 2012 reform, we focus on families whose parental work hours and older siblings' childcare hours were documented before 2012. Using a triple-difference approach, we exploit variations across families based on timing, presence of a toddler-aged younger child, and whether the new hours constraint would have affected older siblings before 2012. Our findings show that affected families experienced a significant decrease in mothers' labor force participation, while effects on fathers were minimal and statistically insignificant. We also find suggestive evidence of modest increases in labor supply and earnings for some mothers who remained employed.

本文研究了荷兰一项收紧托育补贴对父母工作要求的改革如何影响母亲就业。2011年之前，只要父母双方都工作，荷兰4岁以下儿童的补贴托育时间无任何限制。2012年，改革将补贴托育时间上限设定为父母中工作时间较少的一方工作时长的1.4倍。为了应对2012年改革后父母工作时间和托育时间的潜在调整，本文聚焦那些在2012年之前已有父母工作时间和年长子女托育时间记录的家庭。我们利用家庭之间观测时点是否在2012年及以后、是否有2—3岁小孩以及新的时间限制是否会在2012年之前影响到年长子女这三方面的差异构建了一个三重差分的模型。实证研究结果显示，受影响家庭的母亲劳动市场参与率显著下降，而对父亲的影响微乎其微且在统计上不显著。此外，一些继续工作的母亲的劳动力供给和收入有小幅增长的迹象。

主讲人学术简介：

张宏亮，美国麻省理工学院（MIT）博士，浙江大学经济学院新百人计划研究员（一类）、博士生导师，劳动经济研究所副所长。主要从事经济学微观实证研究，特别是因果推断方法在劳动经济学、公共经济学、发展经济学、城市经济学等领域的应用。其研究成果发表于权威经济学综合期刊Journal of European Economic Association、International Economic Review以及Journal of Public Economics、Journal of Development Economics（2篇）、Journal of Urban Economics，Economics of Education Review等顶尖领域期刊。