Now what? Are daycare attendance and postpartum depression associated with mother\'s return to labor market after pregnancy?

• Autor(a) principal: Reis, Milena Villela Machado dos
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da USP
• Texto Completo: https://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/96/96131/tde-10082022-101825/
• topic: Creche; Daycare; Depressão pós-parto; Fecundidade; Fertility; Gender; Gênero; Labor market; Mercado de trabalho; Postpartum depression

Women\'s participation in the labor market has largely grown in the past century in Brazil and this increase brought up the situation of several women engaged in the market but at some point in life decided to become pregnant. This study aims to understand how daycare attendance and postpartum depression affect women\'s decision to work after pregnancy. Using cohort data from Ribeirão Preto/SP and São Luís/MA from 2010 of mothers during the prenatal period and follow-up (after birth), we estimate a multinomial logit on work decision after birth (formal work, informal work, or not work). We find that postpartum depression diminishes mothers\' chance to work after birth, especially to work formally, and this decrease is even bigger if she was already working during pregnancy. Also, we find that daycare attendance increases mothers\' chance to work after birth, but it affects more to work formally than informally.