Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/96894 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4690
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children.
Subjects: 
early childhood environment
child care
labor supply
warm glow
full altruism
JEL: 
J13
J22
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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