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The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies

Karademir, Sencer; Laliberté, Jean-William P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper examines the multigenerational impact of children and whether the public provision of formal childcare lessens the earnings and employment impacts of children. We find that the arrival of a firstborn reduces employment and earnings of mothers and employment of grandmothers. Studying a...

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Paying Moms to Stay Home : Short and Long Run Effects on Parents and Children

Gruber, Jonathan; Kosonen, Tuomas; Huttunen, Kristiina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the impacts of a policy designed to reward mothers who stay at home rather than join the labor force when their children are under age three. We use regional and over time variation to show that the Finnish Home Care Allowance (HCA) decreases maternal employment in both the short and...

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Effects of Enhanced Legal Aid in Child Welfare : Evidence from a Randomized Trial of Mi Abogado

Cooper, Ryan; Doyle, Joseph J.; Hojman, Andrés P. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Children spend years in foster care, and there are concerns that bureaucratic hurdles contribute to unnecessarily long stays. In a novel approach to policy making, the Chilean government randomized the introduction of a program aimed at reducing these delays in order to evaluate its effects on...

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Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development : Experimental Evidence from Brazil

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Barros, Ricardo Paes de; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their caregivers over the course of seven years after enrollment into daycare. At the end of 2007, the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil used a lottery to assign children to limited...

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Violent Discipline and Parental Behavior : Short- and Medium-term Effects of Virtual Parenting Support to Caregivers

Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Ravindran, Saravana; Shah, Manisha; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Approximately 75% of children aged 2 to 4 worldwide are regularly subjected to violent discipline across the globe. We study the impact of a virtually-delivered intervention on positive parenting practices in Jamaica. We find the intervention improves caregiver knowledge (0.52 SD) and attitudes...

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The Summer Drop in Female Employment

Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We provide the first systematic account of summer declines in women's labor market activity. From May to July, the employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women's total hours worked fall by 9.8 percent, more than...

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A Scalable Approach to High-Impact Tutoring for Young Readers : Results of a Randomized Controlled Trial

Cortes, Kalena E.; Kortecamp, Karen; Loeb, Susanna; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

program that embeds part-time tutors into the classroom to provide short bursts of 1:1 instruction. Eligible kindergarten … over two times more likely to reach the program's target reading level by the end of kindergarten (70% vs. 32%). The …

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One Says Goodbye, Another Says Hello : Turnover and Compensation in the Early Care and Education Sector

Cunha, Flávio; Lee, Marcos - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

retention and compensation in the Early Care and Education workforce by merging datasets from three different government … agencies in Texas. We employ non-structural methods to compare turnover and pay in Early Care and Education with those in other …

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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave : Exploiting Forty Years of U.S. Policy Variation

Flores, Andrea M.; Gayle, George-Levi; Hincapié, Andrés - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

education and wages for the children born under these policies. The mobility effect, chiefly an increase in intergenerational … mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and …

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High-Quality Early-Childhood Education at Scale : Evidence from a Multisite Randomized Trial

Dougan, William R.; García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We offer a new analysis of a large-scale trial of an early-childhood education program that targeted premature, low …

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