Policies that extend the school day in elementary school provide an implicit childcare subsidy for families. As such … childcare is likely to be one of the mechanisms that relaxed restrictions to marriage dissolution. …

threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is …

This paper proposes a dynamic structural model of labour market and childcare choices for couples within a collective … model of decision making. We formalise explicitly the need for childcare as a function of the age structure of the children …-produced childcare to household childcare needs is considered to be a public good within the household, for which preferences are …

Childcare and women's employment decisions are intimately linked. I develop a dynamic model designed to analyse the … effects of childcare subsidies on labour supply, fertility, marriage, and childcare decisions in a collective setting. In the … model, children are a household good, produced by both parental time and time in childcare. Couples cannot commit to insure …