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Taxing Childcare : Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2021
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new … and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that public daycare and informal … childcare are complements. Female labor force participation declines and the response is strongest for single parents and low …
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How the provision of childcare affects attitudes towards maternal employment
Roth, Anja - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 156 (2020) 1/17, pp. 1-30
Do childcare institutions affect gender norms of individuals? I examine the introduction of childcare services and … institutions and attitudes by exploiting regional variation in the regulations and provision of childcare for school children … outside of regular school hours. My results show that the expansion of childcare for school children increases voters' support …
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Cash-for-care, or caring for cash? : the effects of a home care subsidy on maternal employment, childcare choices, and children's development
Collischon, Matthias; Kühnle, Daniel; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2020
How parents respond to changes in the price of childcare is an important, though not fully understood, public policy … outcomes, childcare choices, and children's development. We examine a German reform from 2013 which introduced a home care … subsidy of initially 100 Euros per month for families who do not use subsidised childcare. Exploiting a date-of-birth cut …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226591
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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families
Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019
We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230973
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Cash-for-care, or caring for cash? : the effects of a home care subsidy on maternal employment, childcare choices, and children's development
Collischon, Matthias; Kühnle, Daniel; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2020
How parents respond to changes in the price of childcare is an important, though not fully understood, public policy … outcomes, childcare choices, and children's development. We examine a German reform from 2013 which introduced a home care … subsidy of initially 100 Euros per month for families who do not use subsidised childcare. Exploiting a date-of-birth cut …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012259719
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Modes of child care
Glomm, Gerhard; Meier, Volker - 2016
We model choices between caring for an infant at home or through some market provision of child care. Maternal labor supply necessitates child care purchased in the market. Households are distinguished along three dimensions: (i) Exogenous income, (ii) the wage rate of the primary care giver and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587881
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The economic consequences of family policies : lessons from a century of legislation in high-income countries
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2017
at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with … gender outcomes. Most estimates of the impact of parental leave entitlement on female labor market outcomes range from … childcare. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607454
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The economic consequences of family policies : lessons from a century of legislation
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2017
at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with … gender outcomes. Most estimates of the impact of parental leave entitlement on female labor market outcomes range from … childcare. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596290
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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families
Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019
We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024392
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Duration of parental leave and women's employment
Jungho Kim - 2018
The impact of the duration of parental leave on women's employment in Korea is examined by focusing on the heterogeneous effects. The results of the extension of the maximum job-protected leave from 12 months to 15 months are as follows. First, the policy change led to more female employees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810288