Investing in mothers? The long-run impact of a universal child care

black6

This assumes that mothers in the workforce earning (taxable) income is a benefit in and of itself. It doesn't consider the familial impacts of outsourcing the raising of ones own offspring to another party.

purpleflame1257

The same authors saw some evidence of development problems among the children in the same cohort. https://www.nber.org/papers/w21571

Tycho

So from a fiscal perspective, it more or less pays for itself through greater career taxable earnings of the women, according to the study. (EDIT: unless of course these extra earnings were mostly transfers so-to-speak from non-mothers to mothers) From a societal and human perspective, unclear that it’s worth it.