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The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure : Theory and Evidence

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2012

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home...

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Public Child Care and Mothers' Labor Supply - Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2013

Public child care is expected to assist families in reconciling work with family life. Yet, empirical evidence for the relevance of public child care to maternal employment is inconclusive. We exploit the introduction of a legal claim to a place in kindergarten in Germany, which was contingent...

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To Work or Not to Work? The Effect of Child-Care Subsidies on the Labour Supply of Parents

Kosonen, Tuomas - 2013

This paper studies the effect of child-care subsidies on parental labour supply. I use variation arising from changes …

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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women : Experimental Evidence from Childcare

Galasso, Vincenzo - 2013

exposed to two informational treatments on the positive consequences of formal childcare on children future educational …

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Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household

Apps, Patricia F. - 2014

This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction between second earner wage differences, variation in the price of child care and...

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After-School Care and Parents' Labor Supply

Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Thiemann, Petra - 2021

Does after-school care provision promote mothers’ employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of schoolchildren? We address this question by exploiting variation in cantonal (state) regulations of after-school care provision in Switzerland. To establish exogeneity of...

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The Influence of Child Care on Maternal Health and Mother-Child Interaction

Kroell, Alexandra; Borck, Rainald - 2021

In Germany, formal child care coverage rates have increased markedly over the past few decades. The present paper is concerned with how mothers’ mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not. Furthermore, the effects of formal child care...

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Taxing Childcare : Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children

Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2021

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 …

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Adieu Rabenmutter - The Effect of Culture on Fertility, Female Labour Supply, the Gender Wage Gap and Childcare

Borck, Rainald - 2021

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 …

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An Up-to-Date Joint Labor Supply and Child Care Choice Model

Thoresen, Thor O. - 2017

Norwegian parents of preschool children make their care choices from a completely different choice set compared to what their predecessor did, say, two decades ago. Now, there is essentially only one type of nonparental care, center-based care, and at the parental side fathers take a more...

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