Partnered Women's Labour Supply and Child-Care Costs in Australia: Measurement Error and the Child-Care Price

Robert Breunig; Xiaodong Gong; Anthony King

doi:10.1111/j.1475-4932.2012.00797.x

Partnered Women's Labour Supply and Child-Care Costs in Australia: Measurement Error and the Child-Care Price

Robert Breunig, Xiaodong Gong^*, Anthony King

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We show that measurement error in the constructed price of child-care can explain why previous Australian studies have found partnered women's labour supply to be unresponsive to child-care prices. Through improved data and improved construction of the child-care price variable, we find child-care price elasticities that are statistically significant, negative and in line with elasticities found in other developed countries.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	51-69
Number of pages	19
Journal	Economic Record
Volume	88
Issue number	SUPPL.1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4932.2012.00797.x
Publication status	Published - Jun 2012

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