on parents’ labour supply of offering free part-time childcare and of expanding this offer to the whole school day in …

Many governments are considering expanding childcare subsidies to increase the labour force participation of parents … (especially mothers) with young children. In this paper, we study the potential impact of such a policy by comparing the effects of … mothers. These effects emerge immediately and grow over the months following entitlement. We find no evidence that parents …

children may only encourage a small number of low income lone parents to return to work. -- labour supply ; school entry …Childcare costs are often viewed as one of the biggest barriers to work, particularly among lone parents on low incomes …. Children in England are typically eligible to start school - and thus access a number of hours of free public education - on 1 …