It is widely recognized that childcare has important pedagogical, economic and social effects on both children and … parents. This paper is the first attempt to estimate a joint structural model of female labour supply and childcare behaviour … applied to Italy in order to analyse the effects of relaxing the existing constraints in terms of childcare availability and …

The cost of childcare has a significant impact on the decision of parents – particularly mothers – to work. Prior to … the introduction of subsidies for formal childcare in Ireland in 2019 through the National Childcare Scheme (NCS), the … cost of full-time centre-based childcare was among the most expensive in the OECD. In this paper, we investigate the …

According to many studies, childcare is an important input for children’s development but it is also used to free up … time for parents to work. However, many households are still confronted with availability constraints in childcare. In the … recent past, many governments implemented policy reforms in order to increase the coverage rate of childcare. The empirical …