A dynamic analysis of the effect of child care costs on the work decisions of low-income mothers with infants.
Child care costs reduce the net benefit of working and consequently influence mothers' decisions to work. They affect the employment of low-income mothers in particular because they represent a larger portion of these mothers' earnings. I used a hazard framework to examine a mother's decisions about...
| Publicado en: | Demography Vol. 39; no. 1; pp. 139 - 165 |
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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.
February 2002
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