Dynamic Labour Supply Effects of Childcare Subsidies: Evidence from a Canadian Natural Experiment on Low-Fee Universal Child Care

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Lefebvre ◽  
Phil Merrigan ◽  
Matthieu Verstraete
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Labour Supply

scholarly journals Child Care Availability, Quality and Affordability: Are Local Problems Related to Labour Supply?*

2011 ◽  
Vol 87 (276) ◽  
pp. 109-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
ROBERT BREUNIG ◽  
ANDREW WEISS ◽  
CHIKAKO YAMAUCHI ◽  
XIAODONG GONG ◽  
JOSEPH MERCANTE
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Labour Supply ◽  
Local Problems ◽  
Care Availability

scholarly journals Immigrant supply of marketable child care and native fertility in Italy

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-31
Author(s):  
R. D. Mariani ◽  
F. C. Rosati
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Instrumental Variable ◽  
Natural Experiment ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Variable Approach ◽  
Child Care Services ◽  
Instrumental Variable Approach

Abstract The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past, large inflows of low-skilled migrants have substantially increased the supply of child-care services. In this paper, we examine if immigration has actually affected fertility exploiting the natural experiment occurred in Italy in 2007, when a large inflow of migrants—many of them specialized in the supply of child care—arrived unexpectedly. With a difference-in-differences method, we show that immigrant female workers have increased native births by a number that ranges roughly from 2% to 4%. We validate our result by the implementation of an instrumental variable approach and several robustness tests, all concluding that the increase in the supply of child-care services by immigrant women has positively affected native fertility.

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