TY - JOUR
T1 - Tots and teens
T2 - How does child’s age influence maternal labor supply and child care response to the earned income tax credit?
AU - Michelmore, Katherine
AU - Pilkauskas, Natasha
N1 - Funding Information:
This project received funding from the Institute for Research on Poverty’s Extramural Small Grants Program (award 745K393 PRIME: 1H79AE000103). We thank Jeff Smith and Amanda Agan for comments on the manuscript, seminar participants at the University of Michigan, and Richard Rodems for assistance with the child care data. Contact the corresponding author, Katherine Michelmore, at kmichelm@umich .edu. Information concerning access to the data used in this paper is available as supplemental material online.
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PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - Building on earlier work that shows that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has a substantial positive effect on maternal labor supply, we show that labor supply effects are concentrated among mothers with children under age 3, with only moderate effects of the EITC on the labor supply of mothers with teenagers. These increases in labor supply are coupled with large increases in the use and cost of child care among mothers with children under age 3. Results highlight the importance of considering heterogeneous treatment effects of policy and have implications for child care policy and other family policy.
AB - Building on earlier work that shows that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has a substantial positive effect on maternal labor supply, we show that labor supply effects are concentrated among mothers with children under age 3, with only moderate effects of the EITC on the labor supply of mothers with teenagers. These increases in labor supply are coupled with large increases in the use and cost of child care among mothers with children under age 3. Results highlight the importance of considering heterogeneous treatment effects of policy and have implications for child care policy and other family policy.
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U2 - 10.1086/711383
DO - 10.1086/711383
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85110581119
SN - 0734-306X
VL - 39
SP - 895
EP - 929
JO - Journal of Labor Economics
JF - Journal of Labor Economics
IS - 4
ER -