The effects of a recent Swedish child-care fee reform are compared with those of an alternative reform, increased child … benefits. The fee reform implied considerably decreased fees and was intended to increase both labor supply among parents and … aversion, the alternative reform would have been preferable to the implemented fee reform. <p> …

In this paper we propose a tax and benefit reform to increase the working hours and to decrease the welfare … self-selection into welfare. The proposed reform would generate welfare-gains for virtually everyone in the sample, yet …