When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these … changes to the family's budget constraint on parents' working hours. Labor supply is theoretically expected to increase for … parents who used to spend time taking care of their children, but to decrease for fulltime working parents because of an …

programs but also led to increased use of childcare amongst children at earlier ages. Prior research investigating Quebec …’s universal highly subsidized childcare documented significant declines in a variety of developmental outcomes for all children … aged 0–4 years. However, past analysis has not explored whether these effects vary for children of different ages. In this …

household incomes that retain the level of well-being across different family types, distinguished by family size and employment … status of adults. Our tests support that specialization in home production and childcare-time costs are important …-constrained (all adults in the household work), and also higher for poorer households. …

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with … children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …