Marital Status and Full-time/Part-time Work Status in Child Care Choices

Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean

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“…Almost all analyses report a significant negative effect of child care costs on women's employment. However, the estimated child care price elasticity of employment ranges from about -.2 to -0.9 (Connelly and Kimmel 2003). Compared to these estimates our elasticity is in the lower range.…”

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“…The combined result of the reform saw a fall in child care costs and a rise in capacity. 2 There is a substantial literature on the importance of child care costs on the female labor supply over the last two decades (see for example, Blau & Robbins 1988;Ribar 1992;Connelly 1992;Connelly & Kimmel 2003;Blau & Tekin 2007;Gelbach 2002;Blau 2003;Baker, Gruber, & Milligan 2008;Lefebvre & Merrigan 2008;Herbst 2010;and Cascio 2009). Despite the large number of studies, considerable uncertainty lingers about the magnitude of the maternal employment effect with respect to the price of child care (Blau 2003).…”

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Enticing even higher female labor supply: the impact of cheaper day care

Hardoy

Schøne

2013

Rev Econ Household

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We ask whether cheaper child care can spur labor supply of mothers in an economy with high female labor supply. We exploit exogenous variation in child care prices induced by a public reform. A triple difference approach is put forward. The results show that reduced child care prices led to a rise in labor supply of mothers by approximately 5 percent. A "back-of-the-envelope" calculation estimates an elasticity of approximately -0.25, which is at the lower end compared to other studies, suggesting that labor supply is less elastic when female employment is high. Since a capacity-increase was introduced at the same time, the positive labor supply effect may be a result of both reduced prices and increased capacity.JEL classification: J13, J18, J22

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Enticing even higher female labor supply: the impact of cheaper day care

Hardoy

Schøne

2013

Rev Econ Household

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“…The NSAF also provides detailed information on the primary child care arrangement in which the child 2 For example, Anderson and Levine (2000), Connelly and Kimmel (1999), Kimmel (1995Kimmel ( , 1998, Ribar (1992Ribar ( , 1995, Blau and Robins (1998), Powell (1997 focus on the employment outcome. Leibowitz, Waite, and Witsberger (1988), Lehrer (1989), Hofferth and Wissoker (1992), Cleveland and Hyatt (1993), Chaplin et al (1999), and Connelly and Kimmel (2000) estimate models of the demand for specific modes of child care. However, only three studies, Hagy (1998), Powell (2002), and Michalopoulos and Robins (2002) includes all children under age 13 whereas the sample used in this paper contains only 4 In the NSAF, child care information is collected for up to two randomly chosen children, one between ages 0-5 and the other between ages 6-12.…”

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Child Care Subsidy Receipt, Employment, and Child Care Choices of Single Mothers

Tekin

2004

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This paper examines the impact of actual subsidy receipt of single mothers on their joint employment and child care mode decisions in the post-welfare reform environment, which places a high priority on parental choice with the quality and type of care chosen. Results indicate that single mothers are highly responsive to child care subsidies by increasing their employment while moving from parental and relative care to center care in the process.

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“…It is important to note that these papers assume that the mother's employment decision is exogenous to the child care choice decision. Controlling for the potential endogeneity of the employment decision, Connelly and Kimmel (2001) examine the demand for alternative modes of child care, including predicted full-time employment as regressors in their demand model. Based on a multinomial logit choice model, Connelly and Kimmel report own-price elasticities for center, home-based, and relative care of -2.297, -1.068, and 0.250, respectively, for married mothers, and -4.021, -4.426, and 0.270, respectively, for single mothers.…”

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Nonstandard Work and Child Care Choices of Married Mothers

Kimmel

Powell

2001

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The focus of this paper is to examine the interplay between nonstandard employment and child care choice decisions of married mothers with young children. We draw on the 1992/93 Survey of Income and Program Participation to estimate two related econometric models of child care choice that include the choice among center, sitter, relative and parental care. First, controlling for the potential endogeneity of the nonstandard work decision, we find that being a nonstandard worker significantly reduces the likelihood of using formal modes of child care such as center and sitter care. In our second model, where we jointly estimate the work status and child care choice decisions of mothers, we find that the standard versus nonstandard work decision is more responsive to the price of child care. Finally, we conclude the paper by discussing potential policy solutions to improve the child care options for mothers with young children working in nonstandard jobs.

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Marital Status and Full-time/Part-time Work Status in Child Care Choices

Cited by 56 publications

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Enticing even higher female labor supply: the impact of cheaper day care

Enticing even higher female labor supply: the impact of cheaper day care

Child Care Subsidy Receipt, Employment, and Child Care Choices of Single Mothers

Nonstandard Work and Child Care Choices of Married Mothers

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