Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip - In: Journal of Labor Economics 26 (2008) 3, pp. 519-548
In 1997, the provincial government of Québec, the second most populous province in Canada, initiated a new child-care policy. Licensed child-care service providers began offering day-care spaces at the reduced fee of $5.00 per day per child for children aged 4. By 2000, the policy applied to...