TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Barigozzi, Francesca
AU  - Cremer, Helmuth
AU  - Roeder, Kerstin
        TI  - Women's Career Choices, Social Norms and Child Care Policies
        PY  - 2017/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10502
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10502
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - social norms
KW  - child care
KW  - women's career choices
KW  - women quotas
KW  - child care subsidies
KW  - parental leave
        ER  -