Taxing childcare: effects on family labor supply and children
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 inf...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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Bonn
IZA
2012
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| Series: | Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
6440 |
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Discussion paper series (6440)
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| Online Access: | Resolving-System, Volltext, Volltext: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:101:1-201207126788 Verlag, Volltext: http://ftp.iza.org/dp6440.pdf Download aus dem Internet, Stand: 16.05.2012, Volltext: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58653 
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| Author Notes: | Christina Gathmann; Björn Sass |
| Summary: | 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. -- childcare ; labor supply ; cognitive skills ; family policy ; Germany |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| Format: | Systemvoraussetzung: Acrobat Reader. |