The e¤ect of child care prices on the labour supply of parents
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We estimate the e¤ect of child home care allowance to parents labour supply. A municipal supplement to home care allowance in Finnish child care system provides exogenous variation to labour supply. The supplement allows us to compare labour outcomes of similar families that receive di¤erent home care allowances because they live in di¤erent municipalities. The results for mothers indicate a large statistically signi cant negative e¤ect to labour force participation when child home care allowance is increased. Acknowledgement 1 I would like to thank Roope Uusitalo, professor Richard Blundell and porfessor Jukka Pirttilä, as well as many seminar audiences for many helpful comments. I am also grateful of the nancial support from Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation, Finnish Cultural Foundation and Palkansaajasäätiö to costs arisinig from a visit to University College London.
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