Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

By Katharina Wrohlich. Social Science Research Network, 2006

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In this paper, I suggest an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a discrete choice panel data model controlling for unobserved heterogeneity to simultaneously estimate labor supply and the demand for child care of German mothers with at least one child under the age of seven years. The model can be used to evaluate different kinds of policy reforms, such as changes in the availability or costs of child care. Results from the illustrating policy simulations show that targeting public expenditures at an extension of child care slots has greater effects on the demand for child care as well as on maternal employment than a reduction of parents' fees to existing slots.

Subfields: Education, Gender Studies, Safety Research

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In Education

1. P. Haan
2. W. Van Lancker
3. Alexander Bick
4. Katharina Wrohlich

In Gender Studies

1. Alexander Bick
2. P. Haan
3. W. Van Lancker
4. Jan Bernhardt
5. J. Allmendinger
6. Lena Hipp
7. Katharina Wrohlich

In Safety Research

1. P. Haan
2. W. Van Lancker
3. Alexander Bick

Citations in the corpus

• Putting the Child-Centred Investment Strategy to the Test: Evidence for the EU27: (2013, background): “PUTTING THE CHILD-CENTRED INVESTMENT STRATEGY TO THE TEST: EVIDENCE FOR THE EU27 17 almost all countries subsidized one way or the other (Kreyenfeld and Hank, 2000; Viitanen, 2005; Wrohlich, 2011).”
• The Parental Leave Benefit Reform in Germany: Costs and Labour Market Outcomes of Moving towards the Nordic Model (2008, unknown): “simulation of the other policy changes, Wrohlich 2006b and Steiner and Wrohlich 2006).”
• Institutions and the prevalence of nonstandard employment (2015, background): “…2006; Baumgartner and Caliendo, 2008) ∼ for young people (Meager et al., 2003) Availability of childcare + for participation and working hours (Andrén, 2003; Wrohlich, 2006; Del Boca and Vuri, 2007; Kornstad and Thoresen, 2007) Childcare costs – for participation and working hours (Powell, 1997;…”
• Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility? Evidence from a Structural Model (2009, methodology): “As suggested in Wrohlich (2006) and Haan and Wrohlich (2009), we use a measure that takes rationing explicitly into account.”
• The Quantitative Role of Child Care for Female Labor Force Participation and Fertility (2016, background): “Third, as in Ribar (1995), Blau and Hagy (1998), Wrohlich (2006) and Tekin (2007) I assume that every mother has access to non-paid child care.”