CHILD CARE DEMAND AND LABOR SUPPLY OF MARRIED WOMEN

先前关于儿童保育需求的经济决定因素的研究 认识到母亲时间的机会成本的作用， 影响护理模式的选择。 然而，通过聚焦 专门研究儿童保育模式的选择，这项工作忽略了一个事实， 儿童保育，就像女性劳动力供应一样，有一个小时的维度。 小时 购买儿童保育和工作时间可能会共同 与母亲照顾孩子所花费的时间沿着决定。 我们提出的新研究的目标是开发和估计一个 儿童保育服务需求的短期微观经济模型， 为有年幼子女的已婚妇女提供劳动力。 一个主要目标 分析的目的是发展理论和经验关系， 市场工作时间，购买儿童保育时间， 母亲的时间来照顾自己的孩子。 以考虑 工作时间和/或儿童保育时间与 零，我们将根据最近的研究构建一个经验框架 需求分析中数量限制的含义。 这 将允许我们利用存在于 条件需求函数，出现在角落的解决方案的情况下， 那些是定量配给的结果， 儿童保育服务的缺乏对劳动力供应的影响， 已婚妇女 我们建议使用1976年以来工作和失业妇女的数据。 收入动态小组研究的妻子访谈。 估计 结构模型将通过最大似然法来实现。

Previous research on the economic determinants of the demand for child care recognized the role of the opportunity cost of the mother's time in influencing the choice of the mode of care. However, by focusing exclusively on the choice of child care mode, this work ignored the fact that child care, like female labor supply, has an hours dimension. Hours of purchased child care and hours of work are likely to be jointly determined along with the time spent by the mother in the care of children. The goal of our proposed new research is to develop and estimate a short-run microeconomic model of the demand for child care services and the supply of labor for married women with young children. A primary objective of the analysis is to develop theoretical and empirical relationships for hours of market work, hours of purchased child care, and the allocation of mother's time to the care of her own children. To account for the possibility that hours of work and/or hours of child care are equal to zero, we will construct an empirical framework based on recent research into the implications of quantity constraints in demand analysis. This will allow us to exploit the formal equivalence which exists between conditional demand functions that arise in the case of corner solutions and those which are the result of rationing to make inferences about the impact of the unavailability of child care services on the supply of labor for married women. We propose to use data on both working and nonemployed women from the 1976 wives interview of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Estimation of the structural model will be achieved by the method of maximum likelihood.