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In 2007, seeking to increase female labor force participation and more generally ease burdens on working women, the Mexican government introduced an enormous expansion of a child care program: Estancias Infantiles para Apoyar a Madres Trabajadoras (EI). EI covers 90 percent approximately of the...
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Previous studies report a range of estimates for the response of female labor supply and childcare attendance to … childcare prices. We shed new light on these questions using a policy reform that raises the price of public daycare. After the … effects on older siblings and fertility decisions show that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family …
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-lasting effects on fathers' involvement in childcare and housework. Effects on maternal labor supply are also significantly positive …
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-lasting effects on fathers' involvement in childcare and housework. Effects on maternal labor supply are also significantly positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925015
-lasting effects on fathers' involvement in childcare and housework. Effects on maternal labor supply are also significantly positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011957637
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 …
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-low fertility and female labor force participation rates. This paper analyzes the effects of a large-scale provision of publicly …-targeting of this child-care expansion, our estimates show that the policy led to a sizable increase in employment (8%), and hours … children ; childcare ; quasi-natural experiment ; differences-in-differences-in-differences …
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-low fertility and female labor force participation rates. This paper analyzes the effects of a large-scale provision of publicly …-targeting of this child-care expansion, our estimates show that the policy led to a sizable increase in employment (8%), and hours …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121742
Increasing mothers’ labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...
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Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345547