The Child and Dependent Care Credit (CDCC), a tax credit based on income and child care expenses, reduces child care … author finds that a $100 increase in CDCC generosity increases paid child care participation by 0.6 percentage points among …

-being in child care settings, little is known about the qualifications and skills of the child care workforce. This paper … care sector. I find that today's workforce is relatively low-skilled: child care workers have less schooling than those in …-paid individuals in the economy. I also show that the relative quality of the child care workforce is declining, in part because higher …

This paper examines the effect of an expansion of subsidized early child care on maternal labor market outcomes. It … the pre-reform mean. As agreed and preferred working hours adjust in line with each other, the expansion of early child … care can tap labor market potentials beyond those of currently underemployed mothers. Moreover, conditional effects show …

by all children. Programs supported by the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) have the potential to reduce these …