Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192867 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 885
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
Norwegian parents of preschool children base their care choices on a completely different choice set from their predecessor. Now there is essentially only one type of nonparental care – center-based care – and on the parental side fathers take a more pivotal role in early childhood care. In the present paper we develop and estimate a joint labor supply and child care choice model that takes account of these new characteristics, on the assumption that this model points to current and future modeling directions for several other economies too. Estimations suggest that the average wage elasticity for mothers is 0.25–0.30.
Subjects: 
family policy
child care
structural labor supply model
JEL: 
J13
J22
C25
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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