Carella, Laura; Velázquez, Cecilia; Porto, Natalia; … - 2024 - This version: February 2024
A child’s disability increases childcare demands causing two opposing effects on the mother’s labor supply: while some … types of disability require additional time spent reducing labor supply, othersrequire additional expenses increasing labor … supply. This paper studies the effect of a child’s disability on mothers’ labor supply using data from the 2019-20 IPUMS MICS …