Child‐Care Policy and the Labor Supply of Mothers with Young Children: A Natural Experiment from Canada
利用1993-2002年加拿大调查数据，发现魁北克省1997年实施的每日5加元儿童保育政策显著提高了学龄前儿童母亲的劳动供给。
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.