quantifies the short-run impact of these containment policies on the supply of and demand for child care. The child care market … little evidence that child care search behavior among households has been altered. Because forced supply-side changes appear … production of child care. We discuss the implications of these results for child development and parental employment decisions. …

The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … are affected if schools and child-care centers remain closed. In most European countries, the share of affected working …

Grandparents, and in particular grandmothers, are an important source of informal child care for their grandchildren in … this paper, I use data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe and analyze to what extent child care is … the question of whether the child care provided by grandmothers is encouraging the labor participation of their offspring …

The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … are affected if schools and child-care centers remain closed. In most European countries,the share of affected working …

The Child and Dependent Care Credit (CDCC), a tax credit based on taxpayers' income and child care expenses, reduces … families' child care costs. The nonrefundable federal CDCC is available to working families with children younger than 13 years … old in all states, and nearly half of states supplement the federal credit with their own child care credits. The Economic …

wide range of early childhood policy interventions. We develop a model of child care in which households decide both the … parenting-effort channel, whereby child care subsidies that permit less parenting may enable better parenting. To estimate the … randomly assigned free child care when the child was 1 and 2 years old. We estimate a cognitive skill production function and …