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Labor Supply Heterogeneity and Demand for Child Care of Mothers with Young Children

Apps, Patricia; Kabátek, Jan; Rees, Ray; Soest, Arthur van - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2012

domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior … show that the time allocations of women with pre-school children are highly sensitive to changes in wages and the costs of …

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Partnered women’s labour supply and child care costs in Australia: measurement error and the child care price

Gong, Xiaodong; Breuing, Robert; King, Anthony - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2011

We show that measurement error in the constructed price of child care can explain why previous Australian studies have found partnered women’s labour supply to be unresponsive to child care prices. Through improved data and improved construction of the child care price variable, we find child...

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The Availability of Child Care Centers, Perceived Search Costs and Parental Life Satisfaction

Yamauchi, Chikako - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

-based childcare places per 100 children within a household’s residential area. The results show that an increase in the availability … local availability of center-based childcare has enhanced the subjective well-being of parents. …

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Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families?

Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

, raising children and home-making require parents' time, which could be substituted by services bought in the market such as … raise children and run their households, which enables them to have more children and work longer hours. Finally, we use our … services and enables U.S. women to have more children, spend less time on home production and work more than their European …

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The Career Costs of Children

Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Stevens, Katrien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper analyzes the life-cycle career costs associated with child rearing and decomposes their effects into unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility,...

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Gender Roles and Technological Progress

Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

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Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?

Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household level. We put forward an identification strategy that relies on the fact that variation of wages induces variation in benefits and tax credits among 'comparable' households. We...

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Women's Employment Transitions Around Childbearing

Dex, Shirley; Joshi, Heather; Macran, Susan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

longitudinal employment history records for 3,893 33-year-old mothers in the 5th sweep of the 1958 National Child Development Study …

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Why the Henry Review Fails on Family Tax Reform

Apps, Patricia - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

While acknowledging the importance of fairness and the need to avoid creating disincentives in the design of tax reform, the Henry Review recommends a simplified Personal Income Tax and child payments withdrawn on a single family income test. This paper shows that the proposed reforms would...

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Reassessing the Role of Child Care Costs in the Work and Care Decisions of Australian Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Liu, Amy; Mitchell, Deborah - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1999

This paper reassesses how the costs associated with child care influence Australian families’ decisions about their work and child care arrangements. Using data from the Negotiating the Life Course Survey, we suggest that the cost of care may not be an important barrier to labour market...

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