Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2009
We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …