Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18463 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 570
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
In this paper, I suggest an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a discrete choice panel data model controlling for unobserved heterogeneity to simultaneously estimate labor supply and the demand for child care of German mothers with at least one child under the age of seven years. The model can be used to evaluate diŽerent kinds of policy reforms, such as changes in the availability or costs of child care. Results from the illustrating policy simulations show that targeting public expenditures at an extension of child care slots has greater eŽects on the demand for child care as well as on maternal employment than a reduction of parents' fees to existing slots.
Subjects: 
child care
labor supply
discrete choice
panel study
Germany
JEL: 
C35
J13
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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