Most public expenditure on childcare in the US is made through a federal program, the Child Care and Development Fund … employment and reduce welfare dependence among low-income families. Childcare subsidies have been effective in enabling parents …

childcare provided under the Affordable Childcare Scheme and Medical and GP-Visit Cards. Financial work incentives do not … usuallytake account of childcare costs or non-cash benefits that may be withdrawn as a person earns more. In this paper we use … the amount of time parents of young children spend at work results in the need to pay for childcare, the inclusion of …

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 …

surveillance exercise, suggests that increased spending on childcare and early childhood education might usefully be part of any …

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 …

We study the fertility effects of the 1997 Quebec Family Policy, which introduced universal childcare and …, suggesting that subsidized childcare may have helped young women balance work and family life. In contrast, for older cohorts of …