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Barigozzi, Francesca
, Cremer, Helmuth and Roeder, Kerstin
(2017)
Women's career choices, social norms and child care policies.
TSE Working Paper, n. 17-754, Toulouse
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Abstract
Our model explains the observed gender-specific patterns of career and child care choices through endogenous social norms. We study how these norms interact with the gender wage gap. We show that via the social norm a couple's child care and career choices impose an externality on other couples, so that the laissez-faire is inefficient. We use our model to study the design and effectiveness of three commonly used policies. We find that child care subsidies and women quotas can be effective tools to mitigate or eliminate the externality. Parental leave, however, may even intensify the externality and decrease welfare.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Language: | English |
| Date: | January 2017 |
| Place of Publication: | Toulouse |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Social norms, child care, women's career choices, child care subsidies, women quotas, parental leave |
| JEL Classification: | D13 - Household Production and Intrahousehold Allocation H23 - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies J16 - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination J22 - Time Allocation and Labor Supply |
| Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
| Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
| Institution: | Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole |
| Site: | UT1 |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jan 2017 10:55 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2021 15:54 |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:31369 |
| URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/22751 |
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