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dc.contributor.authorGong, Xiaodongen
dc.contributor.authorBreunig, Roberten
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-19-
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-14T11:08:16Z-
dc.date.available2012-09-14T11:08:16Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/62584-
dc.description.abstractWe evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government expenditure. Using Australian data, we estimate a joint, discrete structural model of labor supply and child care demand. We introduce two methodological innovations: a quantity constraint that total formal and informal child care hours is at least as large as the mother's labor supply and child care explicitly included in the utility function as a proxy for child development. We find that tax credits are better than subsidies in terms of increasing average hours worked and household income. However, tax credits disproportionately benefit wealthier and more educated women. Price subsidies, while less efficient, have positive re-distributional effects.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aInstitute for the Study of Labor (IZA) |cBonnen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aIZA Discussion Papers |x6606en
dc.subject.jelC15en
dc.subject.jelC35en
dc.subject.jelJ22en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordchild careen
dc.subject.keywordlabor supplyen
dc.subject.keywordelasticitiesen
dc.subject.keyworddiscrete choice modelen
dc.subject.stwKinderbetreuungen
dc.subject.stwFamilienleistungsausgleichen
dc.subject.stwSteuerbegünstigungen
dc.subject.stwWirkungsanalyseen
dc.subject.stwWeibliche Arbeitskräfteen
dc.subject.stwArbeitsangeboten
dc.subject.stwElastizitäten
dc.subject.stwAustralienen
dc.titleChild care assistance: Are subsidies or tax credits better?-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn717901947en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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