TY - JOUR
T1 - Child Care Availability, Quality and Affordability
T2 - Are Local Problems Related to Labour Supply?
AU - Breunig, Robert
AU - Weiss, Andrew
AU - Yamauchi, Chikako
AU - Gong, Xiaodong
AU - Mercante, Joseph
PY - 2011/3
Y1 - 2011/3
N2 - We examine whether responses to survey questions about child care availability, quality and cost, aggregated at the local geographical level, have any explanatory power in models of partnered female and lone parent labour supply. We find evidence that partnered women and lone parents who live in areas with more reports of lack of availability, low quality or costly child care work fewer hours and are less likely to work than women in areas with fewer reported difficulties with child care.
AB - We examine whether responses to survey questions about child care availability, quality and cost, aggregated at the local geographical level, have any explanatory power in models of partnered female and lone parent labour supply. We find evidence that partnered women and lone parents who live in areas with more reports of lack of availability, low quality or costly child care work fewer hours and are less likely to work than women in areas with fewer reported difficulties with child care.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79951735700&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2010.00707.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2010.00707.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79951735700
VL - 87
SP - 109
EP - 124
JO - The Economic Record, Special Issue
JF - The Economic Record, Special Issue
SN - 0013-0249
IS - 276
ER -