Free Childcare

The Impact of Access to Free Childcare on Womens toil Market Outcomes:
Evidence from a Randomized Trial in Low-income Neighborhoods of Rio de Janeiro
by
Ricardo Paes de Barros, Pedro Olinto, Trine Lunde, Mirela Carvalho
Prepared for the 2011 World Bank Economists Forum
March, 20111. Introduction
Brazilian women entered the pains force at a rapid pace in the past decades. The womanly labor force
participation (LFP) consider rose from 41.2 percent in 1990 to 64 percent in 2007, which is just below the
OECD average of 65 percent. In comparison, that 44 percent of women in comparable upper-middle
income countries in Latin America (Mexico and Chile) participated in the labor force. This increase in
female LFP was driven mainly by married women (Soares 2002) and women with shaverren, including
sm every baberen (Brischini and Lombardi 2003). The turn out has not been offset by a decline in the
proportion of working fathers which indicates an increase in the need for child care.
Policy makers in Brazil have started to respond to the change magnitude demand for child care associated not
only with the bear witness in the female labor force participation, but too because access to child care for children
ageing 0 to 5 has become a constitutional right (Article 7 of the Constitution).



municipal governments are
responsible for ensuring access to day care and pre-school to all children under 6 years of age.
While the country is far-off from being able to provide services to guarantee those rights, governmental
pressure, especially from low income families, is mounting. This is similar to what is happening in new(prenominal)
parts of the world. In OECD countries interest is growing in to a greater extent universal subsidies for early child
care/education, as offered in many nations in Europe. In Canada, the province of Quebec introduced
universal subsidies for child care over the 19972000 period, and a central debate of the 20056 federal
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