[eng] Female Labour Supply and Child Care . . We estimate a model of the decision by mothers of young children to use paid child care services and to work (participation and working hours : half-time , 80 %, full-time ), using French microeconomic data . Our research suggests that the cost of...

This paper investigates the impact of housing demand on the composition of the optimal portfolios of homeowners in France, following the methodology developed by Flavin and Yamashita (NBER Working Paper 6389, 2002). We use historical data on housing prices and financial assets returns to...

We use French household data to estimate a structural model of female labor supply and use of paid child care outside the home. Child care costs are found to have little impact on the labor market participation decision of mothers. The model is used to study various policy issues. The influence...