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Money for Nothing? Universal Child Care and Maternal Employment
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2009
The strong correlation between child care and maternal employment rates has led previous research to conclude that a ordable and readily available child care is a driving force both of cross-country di erences in maternal employment and of its rapid growth over the last decades. We analyze the...
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Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field?
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2012
quantile treatment effects, showing how the child care expansion affected the earnings distribution of exposed children as … suggest that the effects of child care vary systematically across the earnings distribution, that the mean impact misses a lot … middle and upper-class children are unlikely to exceed the costs. To help understand the differential effects on earnings, we …
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No Child Left Behind: Universal Child Care and Children's Long-Run Outcomes
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2009
There is a heated debate in the US, Canada and many European countries about introducing universally accessible child care. However, studies on universal child care and child development are scarce and only consider short-run outcomes. We analyze the introduction of universal child care in...
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