TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Duchini, Emma
AU  - Effenterre, Clémentine Van
        TI  - School Schedule and the Gender Pay Gap
        PY  - 2020/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 13791
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13791
        AB  - We provide causal evidence that children's school schedules contribute to the persistence of the gender pay gap between parents. Historically, French children have had no school on Wednesdays. In 2013, a reform reallocated some classes to Wednesday mornings. Exploiting variations in the application of this reform over time and across the age of the youngest child, we show that mothers are more likely to adopt a regular Monday-Friday full-time working schedule after the reform, while fathers' labor supply is unchanged. Consequently, the reform decreased the monthly gender pay gap by 6 percent, generating fiscal revenues that substantially outweigh its costs.
        KW  - female labor supply
KW  - gender inequality
KW  - school schedule
KW  - child penalty
        ER  -