Preferences for Childcare Policies: Theory and Evidence

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We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed provision. If public provision redistributes from rich to poor, they should favour mixed over pure public provision, but if public provision redistributes from poor to rich, the rich and poor might favour mixed provision while the middle class favour public provision ('ends against the middle'). Using estimates for household preferences from survey data, we find no support for the ends-against-the-middle result.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research ; No. 140

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth ; Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior ; Publicly Provided Private Goods ; Household Behavior and Family Economics: Other
• Subject: Childcare ; redistribution ; political preferences ; public provision of private goods

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Borck, Rainald ; Wrohlich, Katharina
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2008

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/150687
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