Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new … and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that public daycare and informal … childcare are complements. Female labor force participation declines and the response is strongest for single parents and low …

Exploiting the exogenous variation in childcare costs caused by a Swedish childcare reform, we are able to identify the … causal effect of childcare costs on fertility in a context in which childcare enrollment is almost universal, user fees are … low, and the labor force participation of mothers is very high. Anticipation of a reduction in childcare costs increased …

gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively …This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … correlated with each other, while the gender wage gap seems to be negatively correlated with these variables. The paper presents …