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In this article the supply of day care is assumed to be demand-induced. Demand factors include both direct and indirect effects. The indirect effects follow from the composition by gender and political party of the members of the town council. The higher the percentage of both left-wing and female councillors the higher the supply of day care. Although the direct effects of the demand factors are found to be stronger than the indirect effects, the results indicate that the mediating effect of the composition of the council according to gender and political party cannot be ignored.
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On suppose dans cet article que l'équipement en crèches est induit par la demande. Les éléments constitutifs de cette demande comprennent à la fois des effets directs et indirects. Les effets indirects dépendent de la composition par sexe et par parti politique du conseil municipal. Plus l'équipement en crèches est élevé, plus le pourcentage des membres du conseil à la fois de gauche et de sexe féminin est important. Bien que les effets directs des facteurs de la demande soient plus importants que les effets indirects, les résultats indiquent que l'on ne peut ignorer l'effet médiateur de la composition par parti politique et par sexe du conseil.
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The authors thank the Netherlands Institute of Care and Well-being (NIZW) for the data on day-care supply they provided for this study. Also, they thank Frans van Winden and Holly Raider for their commenting on an earlier draft of this article.
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van Dijk, L., Koot-du Buy, A.H.E.B. & Siegers, J.J. Day-Care supply by Dutch municipalities. Eur J Population 9, 315–330 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01265641
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