Child Care Assistance: Are Subsidies or Tax Credits Better? We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women’s labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government expenditure. Using Australian data, we estimate a joint, discrete structural model of labor supply and child care demand. We introduce two methodo...

In this paper we show that it may be optimal for individuals to educate themselves more and decrease future labor supply (choose earlier retirement) when life expectancy increases. This result reconciles the …ndings of Hazan [Hazan, M., 2009. Longevity and Lifetime Labor Supply: Evidence and Implications. Econometrica 77, 1829–1863] with theory. Further, the paper contributes to a better unders...

Parents invest in their children’s human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parentchild time as a form of human capital investment in children using a propensity score treatment effects approach that ac...

Drawing on insights from household production theory and using data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey, this paper seeks to provide the first estimates of the causal effect of maternal employment on the obesity status of older children in the Australian and international literatures. To achieve this aim, proxy variables, sibling-differences and instrumental varia...

Informal care is an important source of long-term care (LTC) for persons with dementia and cognitive impairments. Using the Aging Demographic and Memory Study (ADAMS) dataset this study analyzes a sequence of predisposing, enabling and need factors that jointly predict the amount of informal and formal health care received by individuals with dementia in the US. The „altruistic‟ motivation to p...

We have studied the dynamics of the motion of a complex polysaccharide having seven sugar residues in the repeating subunit and which is a receptor for lectin interaction in the coaggregation of oral bacteria. Measurements of the longitudinal and the rotating frame relaxation rates and the heteronuclear nuclear Overhauser effects were carried out on a uniformly 13C-enriched sample using pulse s...

A method for constructing conformational models of flexible complex polysaccharides on the basis of NMR data and molecular modeling is described and is applied to a polysaccharide which is a lectin-binding receptor important in coaggregation of oral bacteria. The method involves uniform biosynthetic enrichment of the polysaccharide with 13C which allows accurate measurements of heteronuclear co...

We present a non-cooperative model of a family’s time allocation between work and a home-produced public good, and examine whether the income tax should apply to couples or individuals. While tax-induced labor supply distortions lead to overprovision of the public good, spouses’ failure to internalize the collective effect of their choices points towards underprovision. A large parameter range ...

We study the effect of fertility on labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability in family size first introduced by Angrist and Evans (1998) for the United States. Our results constitute the first external validation of the estimates obtained for the US. External validation of empirical results is central to the making of rigorous science, but there are very...

【Keywords】Informal care, Caregiver, Long-term care insurance, Labor supply, Japan 【JEL Classification Codes】J22, I11 【Abstract】This paper examines the labor supply outcomes of family care provision for Japanese households in 2010, ten years after the introduction of the public long-term care insurance (LTCI) program. We found that family care provision for parents adversely affected labor marke...