bucket”. We analyze the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and the income tax within the German context …, using a dynamic structural heterogeneous-household model of childcare demand and maternal labor supply. This allows us to … forces. (i) Labor supply responses increase the MECR of the childcare subsidy relative to the income tax. (ii) Child …

bucket” to compare the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and of the income-contingent tax and transfer … schedule. We set up a dynamic structural model of heterogeneous households choosing their childcare demand and maternal labor … supply. Allowing for the availability of informal childcare and for consumption of leisure, we estimate this model within the …

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …

In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We … that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in Norway. Our results reveal a significant increase in the overall employment …

are predictive of labor supply intentions under different policy scenarios related to childcare availability and quality …

eligibility for extended parental leave and geographical variation in formal childcare. We find that estimated treatment effects … on long-term child outcomes differ substantially according to the availability of formal childcare and the mother … capital outcomes only if the reform induces a replacement of informal childcare with maternal care. We conclude that care …

We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use … longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms from 2009 to provide new empirical evidence on asymmetric fertility adjustments … to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify the importance of these fertility adjustments for understanding the …