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Women out, children out : the effect of female labor on portuguese preschool enrollment rates
This article tests whether Portuguese female activity rates have increased preschool
enrollment rates. Particularly during the last 20 years, Portuguese women have assumed new
roles in the marketplace and have become active workers outside of the home environment.
This change has encouraged more sensible decisions with respect to preschool enrollment.
Using cointegration techniques, we concluded that female activity rates and real income per
capita caused a long-term increase in preschool enrollment rates. Although the percentage of
agricultural gross value added to the gross domestic product and the number of preschool
institutes were also found to be significant in the estimated vector error correction model,
their causal relationship with preschool enrollment was only short term.COMPETE; QREN; FEDER; Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT