Gong, Xiaodong; Breunig, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household … income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government expenditure. Using Australian data, we estimate … a joint, discrete structural model of labor supply and child care demand. We introduce two methodological innovations: a …