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 ist strongest for single parents and low …

We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model … childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed …

grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor force participation of women positively. However, grandparent … provide child care. We build a model of residence choice, fertility, and female labor force participation that can account for … level, fertility and mothers' labor force participation would increase, while mobility would remain unchanged. The absence …

We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten …

public childcare arrangements, but are capable of finding individual solutions are more likely to balance work and family …