We develop a model to study the impact on gender gaps in participation and wages of a liquidity constraint that … gender gaps in the labour market. In this framework, an extension of paid maternity leave duration has ambiguous effects on … gender inequality. In contrast, child care subsidies, which require higher taxes, and loans, which do not, unambiguously …

This paper proposes a dynamic structural model of labour market and childcare choices for couples within a collective … model of decision making. We formalise explicitly the need for childcare as a function of the age structure of the children …-produced childcare to household childcare needs is considered to be a public good within the household, for which preferences are …

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 …

gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively …This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … correlated with each other, while the gender wage gap seems to be negatively correlated with these variables. The paper presents …