Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192432 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 450
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
Mothers of preschool children represent one part of the population that might be able to increase its labor supply. We discuss effects of family policy changes that encourage the labor supply of these mothers, as child care fee reductions and increased availability of center-based care. Effects of policy changes are described by employing a joint labor supply and child care choice decision model. Detailed empirical results are provided with respect to mothers' labor supply, families' child care choices, public expenditures, and distributions of income and money metric utility.
Subjects: 
: female labor supply
child care
family policy
discrete choice
microsimulation
compensating variation
JEL: 
D12
D31
J22
H23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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