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The Effect of Child Care Costs on Married Women's Labor Force Participation
Abstract
The effect of child-care costs on the probability that married women with children will participate in the labor market is examined. Child-care costs are estimated.using a generalized Tobit specification corrected for selection. Estimates of a structural probit model of labor-force participation provide evidence to support the prediction that increased child-care costs lower the probability of participation. It is also shown that the lower rate of labor-force participation among mothers of preschoolers is entirely the result of the higher child-care costs faced by these women and endogeneity of the number of young children in the participation equation. Copyright 1992 by MIT Press.
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- Authors
- Connelly, R.
- Venue
- The Review of Economics and Statistics
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1992-02
- Volume
- 74
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 83
- ISSN
- 0034-6535 (ISSN-L)
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- W2024827384
- Cited by
- 488
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 14.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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