Cheaper Child Care, More Children

Eva Mörk, A. Sjögren, Helena Svaleryd
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Abstract

We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous variation in child care costs caused by a Swedish child care reform, we are able to identify the causal effect of child care costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of mothers is very high. A typical household planning another child experienced a reduction in expected future child care costs of SEK 106,000 (USD 17,800). This reduction resulted in 3-5 more child births per 1,000 women during an 18 month period, which corresponds to a 4-6 per cent increase in the birth rate.
更便宜的儿童保育,更多的孩子
我们研究了儿童保育费用对瑞典妇女生育行为的影响,发现儿童保育费用的减少会影响生育决策,即使最初的成本得到了很高的补贴。利用由瑞典儿童保育改革引起的儿童保育成本的外生变化,我们能够在儿童保育入学率几乎普遍且母亲劳动力参与率非常高的背景下确定儿童保育成本对生育率的因果影响。一个计划生育另一个孩子的典型家庭未来的预期儿童保育费用将减少106,000瑞典克朗(17,800美元)。这一减少导致在18个月期间每1 000名妇女多生3-5个孩子,相当于出生率增加4- 6%。
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