Tax Credits, Labor Supply, and Child Care
We explore the impact of the child care tax credit in the U.S. income tax system on the labor supply decisions of married women with young children by incorporating the cost of child care into a structural labor supply model. Using data from the 1986 NLSY, we find that government subsidies to child...
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Volume: | 79 |
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Main Author: |
Susan L. Averett
H. Elizabeth Peters Donald M. Waldman |
Format: | Journal Article |
Language: | English |
Place of publication: |
CAMBRIDGE MIT Press 01.02.1997 M I T PRESS |
published in: | The review of economics and statistics Vol. 79; no. 1; pp. 125 - 135 |
Data of publication: | 19970201 |
ISSN: |
0034-6535 1530-9142 1530-9142 |
EISSN: |
1530-9142 |
Discipline: | Economics Statistics |
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Database: | Social Sciences Citation Index Web of Knowledge Web of Science Web of Science - Social Sciences Citation Index - 1997 CrossRef Database information Databases - DBIS |