Quebec, Daycare, and the Household Strategies of Couples with Young Children

Glenn Stalker and Michael Ornstein

Canadian Public Policy, 2013, vol. 39, issue 2, 241-262

Abstract: In 1997 Quebec adopted a policy providing universal pre-school daycare for five dollars per day. Comparing Quebec to the rest of Canada, we use the 1996, 2001, and 2006 Canadian censuses to determine the impact of this policy on couples' strategies for combining employment and child care. As well as increasing female labour force participation, the policy reduced the number of families with a traditional division of labour, showing greater effects on common-law than on married couples. These effects, however, are considerably smaller than are differences related to the two parents' human capital.

Date: 2013
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