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This paper studies the effect of child-care subsidies on parental labour supply. I use variation arising from changes … the labour force participation of parents. The variation in labour supply incentives is plausibly exogenous, since …
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Does after-school care provision promote mothers’ employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of …
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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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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 …Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new …
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Norwegian parents of preschool children make their care choices from a completely different choice set compared to what … hours and families' use of child care. We find that parents are not responsive to the price on center-based care, but …
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exposed to two informational treatments on the positive consequences of formal childcare on children future educational …
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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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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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In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...
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In this paper, we present a model of a one parent-one child household where parental decisions on labor supply, leisure, and the demand for private and public child care are simultaneously endogenized and intertemporally determined. We characterize the path of the optimal decisions and...
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