Huebener, Mathias; Pape, Astrid; Spiess, C. Katharina - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 180 (2020), pp. 510-543
working longer hours. We study the effects of reforms that abolished day care fees in Germany on parental labour supply. The … denser local labour markets, and highly educated mothers react most strongly. We find no evidence for labour supply responses … at the extensive margin and no evidence of responses in paternal labour supply. The effects on maternal labour supply …