Child-Care Costs and Family Labor Supply

@article{citeulike:2597343, abstract = {The child care industry has expanded rapidly in recent years as a result of growing labor force participation by mothers of young children. Much, but not all, of the child care is being provided through the market. In this paper, a model of family labor supply incorporating both market and nonmarket child care is specified and estimated. The empirical analysis is performed using data from the 1980 baseline household survey of the Employment Opportunity Pilot Projects. The results suggest that both the decision to become employed and the decision to purchase market child care are sensitive to child-care costs. The estimated price elasticity with respect to employment is -0.38 while respect to market care is -0.34.}, author = {Blau, David M. and Robins, Philip K. }, citeulike-article-id = {2597343}, journal = {The Review of Economics and Statistics}, keywords = {child\_care, flp, households}, number = {3}, pages = {374--381}, posted-at = {2008-03-26 15:01:23}, priority = {2}, title = {Child-Care Costs and Family Labor Supply}, url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/1926774}, volume = {70}, year = {1988} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2597343 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2597343 TI - Child-Care Costs and Family Labor Supply JF - The Review of Economics and Statistics VL - 70 IS - 3 SP - 374 EP - 381 N2 - The child care industry has expanded rapidly in recent years as a result of growing labor force participation by mothers of young children. Much, but not all, of the child care is being provided through the market. In this paper, a model of family labor supply incorporating both market and nonmarket child care is specified and estimated. The empirical analysis is performed using data from the 1980 baseline household survey of the Employment Opportunity Pilot Projects. The results suggest that both the decision to become employed and the decision to purchase market child care are sensitive to child-care costs. The estimated price elasticity with respect to employment is -0.38 while respect to market care is -0.34. KW - child_care KW - flp KW - households AU - Blau, David AU - Robins, Philip PY - 1988/// UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/1926774 ER -