on parents’ labour supply of offering free part-time childcare and of expanding this offer to the whole school day in …

Many governments are considering expanding childcare subsidies to increase the labour force participation of parents … (especially mothers) with young children. In this paper, we study the potential impact of such a policy by comparing the effects of … mothers. These effects emerge immediately and grow over the months following entitlement. We find no evidence that parents …

that is better suited to evaluate the program. We find that the program has a positive effect on the enrollment of children … neutral change in the program that would increase the grant for secondary school children while eliminating for the primary … school children would have a substantially larger effect on enrollment of the latter, while having minor effects on the …

: ‘internalising’ and ‘externalising’, related to the ability of children to focus their concentration and to engage in interpersonal … for children born to mothers with higher socio-economic status (education and employment), and to mothers who smoked … other hand, we find a decline in the skills gradient for children without a father figure in the household. Lastly, we …

children may only encourage a small number of low income lone parents to return to work. -- labour supply ; school entry …Childcare costs are often viewed as one of the biggest barriers to work, particularly among lone parents on low incomes …. Children in England are typically eligible to start school - and thus access a number of hours of free public education - on 1 …