Child-Care Policy and the Labor Supply of Mothers with Young Children: A Natural Experiment from Canada

Pierre Lefebvre () and Philip Merrigan ()

Journal of Labor Economics, 2008, vol. 26, issue 3, pages 519-548

Abstract: In 1997, the provincial government of Québec, the second most populous province in Canada, initiated a new child-care policy. Licensed child-care service providers began offering day-care spaces at the reduced fee of $5.00 per day per child for children aged 4. By 2000, the policy applied to all children not in kindergarten. Using annual data (1993-2002) drawn from Statistics Canada's Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, the results show that the policy had a large and statistically significant impact on the labor supply of mothers with preschool children. (c) 2008 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved..

Date: 2008
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