Child Care Subsidies and Labor Supply in Sweden

Siv Gustafsson and Frank Stafford

Journal of Human Resources, 1992, vol. 27, issue 1, 204-230

Abstract: This paper utilizes data from a Swedish household survey for 1984 (the HUS data) in combination with data on public child care fees and spaces per child by community. We argue that the subsidy rate and availability of spaces determined by the political leaders of the community is to a large extent exogenous to the household. The joint out-of-home child care and labor supply decision is analyzed by logit and ordered probit choice models. We find that the high quality public child care in Sweden encourages labor market activity of women with preschoolers even when the spouse's income is high, and that when spaces are not rationed, a lower price encourages use.

Date: 1992
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