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Equity and efficiency of childcare subsidies : a dynamic structural approach

Koll, David; Sachs, Dominik; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian; … - 2023

bucket”. We analyze the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and the income tax within the German context …, using a dynamic structural heterogeneous-household model of childcare demand and maternal labor supply. This allows us to … forces. (i) Labor supply responses increase the MECR of the childcare subsidy relative to the income tax. (ii) Child …

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The effect of structural reforms : do they differ between GDP and adjusted household disposable income?

Botev, Jamila; Égert, Balázs; Turner, David - 2022

surveillance exercise, suggests that increased spending on childcare and early childhood education might usefully be part of any …

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Quantifying Okun’s leaky bucket : the case of progressive childcare subsidies

Koll, David; Sachs, Dominik; Stürmer-Heiber, Fabian; … - 2024

bucket” to compare the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and of the income-contingent tax and transfer … schedule. We set up a dynamic structural model of heterogeneous households choosing their childcare demand and maternal labor … supply. Allowing for the availability of informal childcare and for consumption of leisure, we estimate this model within the …

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To work or not to work? : the effect of child-care subsidies on the labour supply of parents

Kosonen, Tuomas - 2013

This paper studies the effect of child-care subsidies on parental labour supply. I use variation arising from changes … the maternal labour supply by 3 per cent. -- parental labour supply ; child-care subsidies ; participation elasticity …

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Three family policies to reconcile fertility and labor supply

Fenge, Robert; Stadler, Lisa - 2014

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children, the secondary earner's labor supply and welfare....

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Transfers to families with children as a principal-agent problem

Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa; Pettini, Anna - 2000

The relationship between government and parents is modelled as a principal-agent problem, with the former in the role of principal and the latter in the role of agents. We make three major points. The first is that, if the well-being of the child depends not only on luck, but also on parental...

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Trapped at home : the effect of mothers' temporary labor market exits on their subsequent work career

Drange, Nina; Rege, Mari - 2012

This paper investigates how mothers' decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers. Identification is based on the introduction of the Cash-for-Care program in Norway in 1998, which increased mothers' incentives to withdraw from the labor market when their...

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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...

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Child care subsidies, quality, and optimal income taxation

Bastani, Spencer; Blomquist, Nils Sören; Micheletto, Luca - 2017 - First version: April, 2012

In this paper we examine the desirability of subsidizing child care expenditures in a model where parents can choose both the quantity and the quality of child care services they purchase in the market. Our vehicle of analysis is a Mirrleesian optimal tax framework where child care services not...

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Evaluating how child allowances and daycare subsidies affect fertility

Goldstein, Joshua R.; Koulovatianos, Christos; Li, Jian; … - 2017 - This version: January 31, 2017

two evaluation tools: (i) a dynamic model on fertility, labor supply, outsourced childcare time, parental time, asset …

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