The Impact of Childcare Costs on Mothers’ Labor Force Participation
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Keywords
childcare; female labor force participation; child penalty;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- M50 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEM-2025-05-19 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2025-05-19 (Labour Economics)
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