A Structural Model of Child Care and the Labor Supply of Married Women
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- David C. Ribar, Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: This article empirically examines married women's labor supply and
child care expenditures. The article uses winter 1984-85 data from
the Survey of Income and Program Participation to estimate a fully
structural econometric model of labor supply and paid care utilization.
Estimation results indicate that the cost of paid care has small negative
effects on labor supply but stronger negative effects on paid care utilization.
Consequently, subsidy programs such as the Child and Dependent
Care Tax Credit appear to have few effects on married
mothers' employment.
A Structural Model of Child Care and the Labor Supply of Married Women
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Journal of Labor Economics, 13:3 (July 1995), 558-97
- Language: English
- Date: 1995
- Keywords
- Married women, Labor supply, Child care expenditures