Assessing the Fertility Effects of Childcare Cost Subsidies: Evidence from the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit
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Keywords
fertility; birth outcomes; child and dependent care tax credit;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
- J13 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2023-08-21 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-HEA-2023-08-21 (Health Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2023-08-21 (Labour Economics)
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