On September 1st, 1997, a new childcare policy was initiated by the provincial government of Quebec, the second most … populous province in Canada. Childcare services licensed by the Ministry of the Family (not-for-profit centres, family …-based childcare, and for-profit centres under the agreement) began offering day care spaces at the reduced parental contribution of $5 …

two evaluation tools: (i) a dynamic model on fertility, labor supply, outsourced childcare time, parental time, asset … special attention to estimating how intended fertility (fertility before children are born) responds to these policies. We use … expenditure to increase fertility to the replacement level might be viewed as prohibitively high. …

Over the last decades fertility rates have decreased in most developed countries, while female labour force … participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women's fertility and … drawing conclusions about the relevance of institutional factors for fertility and employment decisions. Our results suggest …