children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …

indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found … with regard to mothers’ mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care …

This paper shows that subsidy competition may be efficiency enhancing. We model a subsidy game among two asymmetric … subsidy competition, starting from an equilibrium where the industry core is inefficiently locked in to the smaller region …