Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? Evidence from a structural model.

Autor/inn/en	Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina
Titel	Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? Evidence from a structural model.
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Reihe	Discussion paper series / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit. 4503
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Deutschland; Familienpolitik; Wirkungsanalyse; Kinderbetreuung; Arbeitsplatzangebot; Familienpolitik; Kinderbetreuung; Fruchtbarkeit; Arbeitsplatzangebot; Frauenerwerbstätigkeit; Arbeitspapier; Wirkungsanalyse; Deutschland
Abstract	In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer system which differs by employment state and number of children. To this end we simulate in detail the effects of the tax and transfer system including child care costs. The model provides estimates of structural preferences of women which can be used to study the effect of various policy reforms. In particular, we show that increasing child care subsidies conditional on employment increases labor supply of all women as well as fertility of the childless and highly educated women.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2010/2