Low-fee ($5/day/child) Regulated Childcare Policy and the Labor Supply of Mothers with Young Children: a Natural Experiment from Canada
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- Pierre Lefebvre & Philip Merrigan, 2005. "La politique des services de garde à 5 $/jour et l'offre de travail des mères québécoises : résultats d'une expérience naturelle canadienne," CIRANO Working Papers 2005s-08, CIRANO.
- Pierre Lefebvre & Philip Merrigan, 2005. "Low-fee ($5/day/child) Regulated Childcare Policy and the Labor Supply of Mothers with Young Children: A Natural Experiment from Canada," CIRANO Working Papers 2005s-09, CIRANO.
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Keywords
Mother's labor supply; preschool children; childcare subsidy; natural experiment;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H42 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Private Goods
- J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
- J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-LAB-2005-04-03 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-REG-2005-04-03 (Regulation)
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