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Cheryl Healy, MPP’15
Law, Policy & Society
06.23.2015
The unintended consequence of mandatory child care
By
Cheryl Healy, MPP’15
Chile has one of the lowest female labor-force participation rates in Latin America. So in an effort to bring more mothers into the workforce, a policy was introduced requiring firms to provide childcare. But that's not all it did.
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