PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Tekin, Erdal
TI  - Childcare Subsidies, Wages, and Employment of Single Mothers
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.XLII.2.453
DP  - 2007 Mar 31
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 453--487
VI  - XLII
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLII/2/453.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLII/2/453.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2007 Mar 31; XLII
AB  - This paper develops and estimates a model for the choice of part-time and full-time employment and the decision to pay for childcare among single mothers. The results indicate that a lower childcare price and a higher full-time wage rate both lead to an increase in overall employment and the use of paid childcare. The part-time wage effects are found to be too small to have significant behavioral implications. An analysis of cost-effectiveness indicates that the additional hours of work generated per dollar of government expenditure is larger for a childcare subsidy than a wage subsidy.