How far can reduced childcare prices push female labour supply?

Labour Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 647-659

  Lundin, Daniela ^a   Mörk, Eva ^a   Öckert, Björn ^a  

^a Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU)   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Difference in differences regression matching; J13; J21; Labour supply; Price of childcare

Indexed keywords

EID: 50049128132     PISSN: 09275371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2008.04.005     Document Type: Article

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