Search Results - subject:"CHILD CARE"

Gender Care Gap in Deutschland : kein anhaltender Anstieg infolge der Corona-Pandemie

Jessen, Jonas; Kinne, Lavinia; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 91 (2024) 9, pp. 123-130

Anlässlich des Internationalen Frauentages am 8. März erhalten zahlreiche Ungleichheiten zwischen Frauen und Männern erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit. Insbesondere der Gender Pay Gap, also die geschlechtsspezifische Lohnlücke, die nach Berechnungen des Statistischen Bundesamtes im Jahr 2023 zum...

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How daycare quality shapes norms around daycare use and parental employment : experimental evidence from Germany

Philipp, Marie-Fleur; Büchau, Silke; Schober, Pia S.; … - 2024

Not only the quantity of formal daycare provision for young children, but also its quality has become an issue of political concern. This experimental study investigates how a hypothetical improvement in the quality of daycare facilities shapes normative judgements regarding daycare use and...

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Effects of child care vouchers on price, quantity, and provider turnover in private care markets

Lee, Won Fy; Sojourner, Aaron; Davis, Elizabeth E.; … - 2024

Harnessing changes in funding for a voucher program that subsidizes consumers' use of child care services at private …

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Short- and long-term effects of universal preschool : evidence from the Arab population in Israel

DeMalach, Elad; Schlosser, Analia - 2024

We estimate the short- and long-term effects of universal preschool education by analyzing the impact of the Israeli Preschool Law, which mandated the provision of public preschool for ages 3 and 4 starting in September 1999. We focus on the Arab population, who were the main beneficiaries of...

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The cost of following traditional gender norms : evidence from a paid leave for seriously ill children

Paredes, Valentina; Perez, Francisca; Pino, Francisco; … - 2024

In this paper we exploit the introduction in February 2018 of a new paid parental leave program to care for a seriously ill child in Chile (SANNA) to identify the role of both economic incentives and gender norms on families' decisions regarding market versus home production specialization. To...

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Access to formal childcare for toddlers and parental employment and earnings

Fukai, Taiyo; Kondo, Ayako - 2024

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Application barriers and the socioeconomic gap in child care enrollment

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Peter, Frauke; … - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2024

Why are children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) substantially less likely to be enrolled in child care? We study … care enrollment. In an RCT in Germany with highly subsidized child care (N = 607), we offer treated families information … the large SES gap in child care enrollment. Increased enrollment for lower-SES families is likely driven by altered …

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The short- and medium-term impacts of Sure Start on educational outcomes

Carneiro, Pedro; Cattan, Sarah; Ridpath, Nick - 2024

This report presents evidence of the short- and medium-term impacts of the programme on educational outcomes. Using a robust evaluation methodology and administrative education data covering 15 cohorts of children, we measure the impact of having had access to a Sure Start centre between ages 0...

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The rate of return to early childhood education in Japan : estimates from the nationwide expansion

Akabayashi, Hideo; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2024

We present new estimates of the internal rate of return to early childhood education. Utilizing the nationwide expansion of preschool education in Japan between 1960 and 1980, we initially assess the impact of preschool attendance on high school graduation and college enrollment for men....

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Public and parental investments, and children's skill formation

Gensowski, Miriam; Landersø, Rasmus; Dale, Philip; … - 2024

This paper studies the interaction between parental and public inputs in children's skill formation. We perform a longer-run follow-up study of a randomized controlled trial that increased preschool quality and initially improved skills significantly for children of all backgrounds. There is,...

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