The Effect of Child Care Subsidies: A Critique of the Rosen Model

Iulie Aslaksen, Charlotte Koren and Marianne Stokstad

Feminist Economics, 2000, vol. 6, issue 1, 95-103

Abstract: In an influential article, Sherwin Rosen (1997) argues that Swedish subsidies of child care services lead to a substantial misallocation of resources that slows economic growth. We offer two major reasons why Rosen's approach is flawed. First and foremost, he ignores the positive externalities of increasing the quality of child care, despite their clear relevance to his general equilibrium model. Second, he overlooks distributional impacts, despite evidence that child care subsidies redistribute the costs of children between men and women, rich and poor, young and old. By exploring these and a number of smaller problems with Rosen's model we hope to encourage the development of more systematic efforts to explore the effects of state support for child rearing.

Keywords: Child Care; Subsidies; Deadweight Loss; Household Production; Welfare State (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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