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Taxing Childcare
Christina Gathmann
Björn Sass
其他書名
Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children
出版
Center for Economic Studies and the Ifo Institute for Economic Research
, 2012
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TsJIMwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare 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-income households. The short-run effects on cognitive and non-cognitive skills are mixed, but negative for girls. Spillover effects on older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members.