Child‐Care Policy and the Labor Supply of Mothers with Young Children: A Natural Experiment from Canada
- 1 July 2008
- journal article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in Journal of Labor Economics
- Vol. 26 (3), 519-548
- https://doi.org/10.1086/587760
Abstract
In 1997, the provincial government of Québec, the second most populous province in Canada, initiated a new child-care policy. Licensed child-care service providers began offering day-care spaces at the reduced fee of $5.00 per day per child for children aged 4. By 2000, the policy applied to all children not in kindergarten. Using annual data (1993-2002) drawn from Statistics Canada's Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, the results show that the policy had a large and statistically significant impact on the labor supply of mothers with preschool children. (c) 2008 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved..Keywords
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