Childcare Subsidies and Child Skill Accumulation in One- and Two-Parent Families
研究发现单亲家庭儿童技能积累对保育价格更敏感，通过模型分析美国式补贴的福利效应，发现取消补贴造成终生消费损失1.63%，而提高单亲家庭补贴覆盖率能带来最大福利收益。
I examine the role of family structure and childcare subsidies in child skill accumulation. I establish empirically that skill accumulation is more responsive to childcare price for one-parent families than for two-parent families. I analyze the effects of childcare subsidies in a model featuring endogenous family formation, parental altruism, and a baseline subsidy resembling that of the United States. I find that eliminating this subsidy generates welfare losses of 1.63 percent of lifetime consumption, that equilibrium adjustments act to mitigate these losses, and that increasing uptake among one-parent families yields the highest welfare gains per additional recipient.