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Day, Creina - 2012

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Bargaining over Babies : Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications

Doepke, Matthias - 2016

agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are … bargaining model of fertility choice and match the model to data from a set of European countries with very low fertility rates …. The distribution of the burden of child care between mothers and fathers turns out to be a key determinant of fertility. A …

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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

parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on … find that the policies exacerbated the motherhood penalty in labor market outcomes and that they affected fertility choices …

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Petrović, Karin (contributor) - 1997

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Child Care and Mothers' Employment Decisions

Anderson, Patricia M. - 1999

Rising female labor force participation and recent changes to the welfare system have increased the importance of child care for all women and, particularly, the less-skilled. This paper focuses on the child care decisions of women who differ by their skill level and the role that costs play in...

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Evidence From Maternity Leave Expansions of the Impact of Maternal Care on Early Child Development

Baker, Michael - 2008

We study the impact of maternal care on early child development using an expansion in Canadian maternity leave entitlements. Following the leave expansion, mothers who took leave spent between 48 and 58 percent more time not working in the first year of their children's lives. We find that this...

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Public Preschool and Maternal Labor Supply : Evidence from the Introduction of Kindergartens into American Public Schools

Cascio, Elizabeth - 2006

Beginning in the mid-1960s, many state governments, particularly in the South and West, began to subsidize kindergartens for the first time. These initiatives generated wide variation across states over time in the supply of seats for five year olds in public schools. This paper uses the...

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Universal Childcare, Maternal Labor Supply, and Family Well-Being

Baker, Michael - 2005

The growing labor force participation of women with small children in both the U.S. and Canada has led to calls for increased public financing for childcare. The optimality of public financing depends on a host of factors, such as the "crowd-out" of existing childcare arrangements, the impact on...

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Child Care Subsidy Receipt, Employment, and Child Care Choices of Single Mothers

Tekin, Erdal - 2004

This paper examines the impact of actual subsidy receipt of single mothers on their joint employment and child care mode decisions in the post-welfare reform environment, which places a high priority on parental choice with the quality and type of care chosen. Results indicate that single...

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Single Mothers Working at Night : Standard Work, Child Care Subsidies, and Implications for Welfare Reform

Tekin, Erdal - 2004

Using a data set from the post welfare reform environment (the 1999 National Survey of America's Families), this paper investigates the impact of child care subsidies on the standard work (i.e., work performed during the traditional work hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. through Monday and Friday)...

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