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 …

Does after-school care provision promote mothers’ employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of …

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 …

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 …

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 …

taken account of by parents. Optimal corrective subsidies are highly correlated with taxed paid by secondary earners. In a …