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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP13675
	DP13675 Having it all, for all: child-care subsidies and income distribution reconciled
	Francesca Barigozzi; Helmuth Cremer; Kerstin Roeder
发表日期	2019-04-15
出版年	2019
语种	英语
摘要	This paper studies the design of child-care policies when redistribution matters. Traditional mothers provide some informal child care, whereas career mothers purchase full time formal care in the market. The sorting of women across career paths is endogenous and shaped by a social norm about gender roles in the family. Via this social norm traditional mothers' informal child care imposes an externality on career mothers, so that the market outcome is inefficient. Informal care is too large and the group of career mothers is too small so that inefficiency and gender inequality go hand in hand. In a first-best, full information word redistribution across couples and efficiency are separable. Redistribution is performed via lump-sum transfers and taxes which are designed to equalize utilities across all couples. The efficient allocation of child care is obtained by subsidizing formal care at a Pigouvian rate. However, in a second-best settings, we show that a trade-off between the reduction of gender inequality and redistributive considerations emerge. The optimal uniform subsidy is lower than the "Pigouvian" level. Under a nonlinear policy the first-best "Pigouvian" rule for the (marginal) subsidy on informal care is reestablished. While the share of high career mothers continues to be distorted downward for incentive reasons, this policy is effective in reconciling the objectives of reducing the child care related gender inequalities and achieving a more equal income distribution across couples.
主题	Public Economics
关键词	Child care Women's career choices Child care subsidies Redistribution Social norms
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp13675
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/542534
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Francesca Barigozzi,Helmuth Cremer,Kerstin Roeder. DP13675 Having it all, for all: child-care subsidies and income distribution reconciled. 2019.