Child Care and the Labor Supply of Married Women: Reduced Form Evidence

1992 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 134 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Ribar
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Reduced Form

Work Relief and the Labor Force Participation of Married Women in 1940

1994 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Aldrich Finegan ◽  
Robert A. Margo
Keyword(s):  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Labor Force ◽  
Labor Force Participation ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Married Women ◽  
Added Worker Effect ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Work Relief

Economic analysis of the labor supply of married women has long emphasized the impact of the unemployment of husbands—the added worker effect. This article re-examines the magnitude of the added worker effect in the waning years of the Great Depression. Previous studies of the labor supply of married women during this period failed to take account of various institutional features of New Deal work relief programs, which reduced the size of the added worker effect.

A Single Parent’s Labor Supply: Evaluating Different Child Care Fees within an Intertemporal Framework

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-215
Author(s):  
Junichi Minagawa ◽  
Thorsten Upmann
Keyword(s):  
Child Care ◽  
Labor Supply ◽  
Time Allocation ◽  
Performance Level ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Optimal Decisions ◽  
Care Services ◽  
Care Policies ◽  
Child Care Services

AbstractIn this paper, we present a model of a one-parent, one-child household where parental decisions on labor supply, leisure, and the demand for parental and public child care are simultaneously endogenized and intertemporally determined. We characterize the path of the optimal decisions and investigate the effects of various public child care fees and of the quality of public child care services on the parent’s time allocation and the child’s performance level. Our results show that different public child care policies may induce substantially diverging effects and reveal that each policy frequently faces a trade off between an encouragement of labor supply and an enhancement of the child’s performance. In addition, we find that, from an efficiency perspective, an income-based fee levied on public child care services is dominated by both a flat fee and a use-based fee system.

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