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Child Care Affordability and Availability

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  • Rebecca Cassells
  • Justine McNamara
  • Rachel Lloyd
  • Ann Harding

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  • Rebecca Cassells & Justine McNamara & Rachel Lloyd & Ann Harding, 2007. "Child Care Affordability and Availability," Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, Australian National University, College of Business and Economics, School of Economics, vol. 14(2), pages 123-139.
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    3. Ann Harding & Quoc Ngu Vu & Richard Percival & Gillian Beer, 2005. "Welfare-to-Work Reforms: Impact on Sole Parents," Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform, Australian National University, College of Business and Economics, School of Economics, vol. 12(3), pages 195-210.
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    4. Robert Breunig & Andrew Weiss & Chikako Yamauchi & Xiaodong Gong & Joseph Mercante, 2011. "Child Care Availability, Quality and Affordability: Are Local Problems Related to Labour Supply?," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 87(276), pages 109-124, March.
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    6. Lyn Craig & Janeen Baxter, 2016. "Domestic Outsourcing, Housework Shares and Subjective Time Pressure: Gender Differences in the Correlates of Hiring Help," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 125(1), pages 271-288, January.

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