Childcare Subsidies, Wages, and Employment of Single Mothers

By E. Tekin. The Journal of human resources, 2007

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This paper develops and estimates a model for the choice of part-time and full-time employment and the decision to pay for childcare among single mothers. The results indicate that a lower childcare price and a higher full-time wage rate both lead to an increase in overall employment and the use of paid childcare. The part-time wage effects are found to be too small to have significant behavioral implications. An analysis of cost-effectiveness indicates that the additional hours of work generated per dollar of government expenditure is larger for a childcare subsidy than a wage subsidy.

Subfields: Gender Studies, Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science

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In Gender Studies

1. Jinseok Kim
2. C. Marbot
3. P. Givord
4. Maryah S. Fram

In Management Science and Operations Research

1. Jinseok Kim
2. C. Marbot
3. P. Givord
4. Maryah S. Fram

In Sociology and Political Science

1. Jinseok Kim
2. C. Marbot
3. P. Givord
4. Maryah S. Fram
5. Tom Lane

Citations in the corpus

• Profiles of choice: Parents’ patterns of priority in child care decision-making (2009, background): “Work participation and child care cost are intertwined for this population, with lower cost child care associated with greater likelihood of full-time employment ( Tekin, 2007 ).”
• Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (2015, unknown): “The evidence from the childcare literature seems to confirm both of these predictions (e.g., Berger and Black 1992; Blau and Currie 2006; Tekin 2007).”
• Does the cost of child care affect female labor market participation? An evaluation of a French reform of childcare subsidies (2015, background): “The international literature generally confirms the link between women’s labor supply and childcare costs, although the estimates are spread across a rather wide range (see for instance Blau and Tekin, 2007 for a review of studies using US data).”
• The Quantitative Role of Child Care for Female Labor Force Participation and Fertility (2016, unknown): “15Blau and Hagy (1998) and Tekin (2007) allow for observed and unobserved quality differences even within one child care mode.”