Koll, David; Sachs, Dominik; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian; … - 2024
German context. Our analysis identifies two competing forces. (i) Labor supply responses increase the MECR of the childcare … schedule. We set up a dynamic structural model of heterogeneous households choosing their childcare demand and maternal labor … supply. Allowing for the availability of informal childcare and for consumption of leisure, we estimate this model within the …