@inproceedings{Bick2010Quantitative,
abstract = {Consistent with facts for a cross-section of OECD countries, I document that the labor force participation rate of West German mothers
with children aged zero to two exceeds the corresponding child care enrollment rate whereas the opposite is true for mothers with children
aged three to mandatory school age. I develop a life-cycle model that explicitly accounts for this age-dependent relationship through various
types of non-paid and paid child care. The calibrated version of the model is used to evaluate two recently passed policy reforms concerning the supply of subsidized child care for children aged zero to two in Germany. These counterfactual policy experiments suggest that the
lack of subsidized child care constitutes indeed for some females a barrier to participate in the labor market and depresses fertility.},
address = {Frankfurt a. M.},
author = {Alexander Bick},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J13; D91; D13; 330; Child Care; Fertility; Life-cycle Female Labor Supply},
language = {eng},
number = {F6-V1},
publisher = {Verein f\"{u}r Socialpolitik},
series = {Beitr\"{a}ge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins f\"{u}r Socialpolitik 2010: \"{O}konomie der Familie - Session: Female Labor Supply},
title = {The Quantitative Role of Child Care for Female Labor Force Participation and Fertility},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/37321},
year = {2010}
}
