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 …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children … in balancing family and work than parental leave payments. The welfare analysis shows that the introduction of subsidies …

This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively … a model with endogenous fertility, female labour supply and childcare choices which fits these facts. There may exist …

differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives particularly for low …We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers … employment differences as East German women with low earnings potentials appear to adopt West German low employment patterns over …

This paper investigates how mothers’ decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers … effects on earnings and full-time employment even when the child was no longer eligible for Cash-for-Care at ages four and … attached to the labor force through part-time employment. …

whether i) the parents control their fertility or not, ii) they value their children or not. Second, it investigates the … family taxation using a household economics approach to behaviour; the nature of the winning policy is found to depend on … policy trivially satisfies horizontal equity, but if fertility is exogenous for some of (or all) the parents, horizontal …

The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the … birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal choice. In a model of cooperative decision making within a family, we … welfare enhancing policy intervention. We discuss the extent to which existing measures in family policy are suitable to …

Given that young children are under the control of their parents, if the government has an interest in either the … welfare or the productivity of the former, it has no option but to act through the latter. Parents are, in the ordinary sense …