Group assignment

1. Addis Ababa City Administration (AACA) has been offering ‘free’ meal for
primary school students. Discuss the implications of the school children feed
program on (i) parent’s time allocation decision, and on (ii) time allocation
decision of children of relatively poor households.
2. Suppose that AACA is seeking your labor economics intellect to advice on its new
plan of providing safe, convenient and free daycare service that parents have
100% trust on the service and that they can drop and pick their children of aged
above 6 months anytime from 5 am to 8 pm.
I. AACA wants to know this project’s impacts on:
a. Men parents’ working hours
b. Labor force participation of women
c. Time allocation decision of women
II. What happens to labor force participation of women, working hours of
women and working hours of men if AACA rather want to fund the daycare
by
a. Collecting 1,000 Birr per parent per month
b. imposing 5% tax on wage income of parents using the service

Note:
• Use graphs and mathematical equations whenever the questions
invite to use
• Group size: 10 to 12 students per group
• Mark: 20 points
• No plagiarism from other groups or from previous work
• Most likely that I will randomly pick group members and ask
questions to know their active participation. Failure to answer
questions leads to lower even zero marks.
• For the seek of resources and the environment, I do not accept hard-
copies.
• Submit by email: gebeyahu.manie@aau.edu.et
• Due date: December 30, 2022