differences, variation in the price of child care and domestic productivity differences as determinants of across-household … heterogeneity in second earner labor supply, and of the resulting relationship between household income and the well-being of … household members. A central result is that taking account of a richer and more realistic specification of household time use …

accounts for almost half of total hours worked. As GDP per capita increases, the employment share of household production in …We provide evidence on household and market production in 36 countries since 1960. On average the household sector … total hours worked initially declines and then hardly changes while the employment shares of market goods and services …

time to different activities. In order to do so, we empirically estimate a collective household labor supply model. The … main findings are that: (1) Leisure and household income are the most important variables in the utility function of the … male. (2) Leisure, total household production and total household production interacted with family size are important …

relevance of public child care to maternal employment is inconclusive. We exploit the introduction of a legal claim to a place … on two individual-level data sets yield large and positive effects of public child care on maternal employment. A set of …

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

women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation … exposed to two informational treatments on the positive consequences of formal childcare on children future educational …

Does after-school care provision promote mothers’ employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of … Switzerland. To establish exogeneity of cantonal regulations with respect to employment opportunities and preferences of the … methods, we find a positive impact of after-school care provision on mothers’ full-time employment, but a negative impact on …

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 …

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 …