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Does grandparenting pay off for the next generations? : intergenerational effects of grandparental care
Barschkett, Mara; Spieß, C. Katharina; Ziege, Elena - 2021
Grandparents act as the third largest caregiver after parental care and daycare in Germany, as in many Western societies. Adopting a double-generation perspective, we investigate the causal impact of this care mode on children's health, socio-emotional behavior, and school outcomes, as well as...
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The duration of paid parental leave and children's scholastic performance
Liu, Qian; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2009
We study how the duration of paid parental leave affects the accumulation of cognitive skills among children. We use a reform which extended parental leave benefits from 12 to 15 months for Swedish children born after August 1988 to evaluate the effects of prolonged parental leave on children's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003858870
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Early child care and child outcomes : the role of grandparents
Del Boca, Daniela; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, … - 2014
In this paper, we focus on the impact of early grandparents' care on child cognitive outcomes, in the short and medium term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children looked after in a formal care centre, children cared by grandparents (as well as parents) are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419071
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Does early child care attendance influence children's cognitive and non-cognitive skill development?
Kühnle, Daniel; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2017
While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio-economic and non-native backgrounds in the short-run, it remains unclear whether such positive effects persist. We identify the short- and medium-run effects of early child care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636663
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Parents' effective time endowment and divorce : evidence from extended school days
Padilla-Romo, María; Peluffo, Cecilia; Viollaz, Mariana - 2022
Policies that extend the school day in elementary school provide an implicit childcare subsidy for families. As such … families by focusing on marriage dissolution. We exploit the staggered adoption of a policy that extended the availability of … full-time elementary schools across different municipalities in Mexico. Using administrative data on divorces, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013206326
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Do parents work more when children start school? : evidence from the Netherlands
Swart, Lisette; Berge, Wiljan van den; Wiel, Karen van der - 2019
When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these changes to the family's budget constraint on parents' working hours. Labor supply is theoretically expected to increase for parents who used to spend time taking care of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011992361
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Longer school schedules, childcare and the quality of mothers' employment : evidence from school reform in Chile
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Lauer, Catalina; … - 2020
to full-day schools on several measures of 'the quality of mothers' jobs, which were correlated to working full-time. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208607
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Intergenerational effects of compulsory schooling reform on early childhood development in a middle-income country
Akgündüz, Yusuf Emre; Akyol, Şaziye Pelin; Aydemir, … - 2024
This paper explores the intergenerational effects of the 1997 compulsory schooling reform in Turkey, which extended compulsory schooling from five to eight years, on the developmental outcomes of children aged 36 to 59 months. We draw upon data from the 2018 Turkey Demographic and Health Survey,...
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Non-cognitive child outcomes and universal high quality child care
Gupta, Nabanita Datta (contributor);  … - 2007
Exploiting a rich panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment generating variation in the take-up of pre-school across municipalities, we provide evidence of the effects on non-cognitive child outcomes of participating in large scale publicly...
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Childcare, eldercare, and labor force participation of married women in urban China: 1982 - 2000
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Chen, Lan; … - 2009
participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003859380