Rising rates of maternal employment among current and former welfare recipients have increased the use of non-parental child care. Little empirical work examines the relationship between women’s labor supply and the geographic supply of child care. We combine census data with child care provider information for the state of Maryland to explore the relationship between female labor supply and th...

The labor supply and other work incentive effects of welfare programs have long been a central concern in economic research. Work has also been an increasing focus of policy reforms in the U.S., culminating with a number of major policy changes in the 1990s whose intent was to increase employment and earnings levels of welfare recipients and other disadvantaged individuals. This paper reviews t...

Survey measures of the reservation wage may reflect both consumption-leisure trade-off and job market prospects (the arrival rate offers distribution). We examine what a survey measure reveals about an individual’s willingness to trade leisure for consumption. To this end, we combine from large labor with one-hour that elicit in online experiment. The two show strong positive association. For u...