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Child Care Availability, Quality and Affordability: Are Local Problems Related to Labour Supply? *
Author(s) -
BREUNIG ROBERT,
WEISS ANDREW,
YAMAUCHI CHIKAKO,
GONG XIAODONG,
MERCANTE JOSEPH
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
economic record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1475-4932
pISSN - 0013-0249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4932.2010.00707.x
Subject(s) - work (physics) , quality (philosophy) , child care , explanatory power , demographic economics , labour economics , labour supply , power (physics) , business , economics , public economics , medicine , nursing , philosophy , epistemology , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , engineering
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.