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Child Care Subsidies, Maternal Well-Being, and Child-Parent Interactions : Evidence from Three Nationally Representative Datasets
Herbst, Chris M. - 2012
A complete account of the U.S. child care subsidy system requires an understanding of its implications for both … fill this gap by examining the impact of child care subsidy receipt on maternal health and the quality of child … of family well-being. In addition, we attempt to handle the possibility of non-random selection into subsidy receipt by …
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The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidies for Single Mothers
Blau, David - 2003
subsidy and the effects of subsidy receipt on employment, school attendance, job search, and welfare participation. We analyze … the impact on subsidy receipt of household characteristics such as family size and structure, and past participation in … welfare. The most important determinant of receipt of a child care subsidy is past receipt, but we cannot determine from our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469033
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Bargaining over Babies : Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications
Doepke, Matthias - 2016
fertility rate compared to a general child subsidy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456602
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Taxes and Entrepreneurial Activity : Theory and Evidence for the U.S
Gordon, Roger H. - 2002
Entrepreneurial activity is presumed to generate important spillovers, potentially justifying tax subsidies. How does the tax law affect individual incentives? How much of an impact has it had in practice? We first show theoretically that taxes can affect the incentives to be an entrepreneur due...
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Government Debt and Capital Accumulation in an Era of Low Interest Rates
Mankiw, Nicholas Gregory - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This essay discusses the reasons for and implications of the decline in real interest rates around the world over the past several decades. It suggests that the decline in interest rates is largely explicable from trends in saving, growth, and markups. In this environment, greater government...
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Medicaid as an Investment in Children : What is the Long-Term Impact on Tax Receipts?
Brown, David W. - 2015
We examine the long-term impact of expansions to Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program that occurred in the 1980's and 1990's. With administrative data from the IRS, we calculate longitudinal health insurance eligibility from birth to age 18 for children in cohorts affected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457831
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Targeted or Universal Coverage? Assessing Heterogeneity in the Effects of Universal Childcare
Kottelenberg, Michael J. - 2016
We extend earlier research evaluating the Quebec Family Policy by providing the first evidence on the distributional effects of universal child care on two specific developmental outcomes. Our analysis uncovers substantial policy relevant heterogeneity in the estimated effect of access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456548
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The Supply of Quality in Child Care Centers
Blau, David M. - 1999
We use data from a sample of day care centers to estimate the relationships between cost and the quality of the child care service provided, and between revenue and quality. We use a measure of child care quality derived from an instrument designed by developmental psychologists. This measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471564
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Quality Adjusted Cost Functions for Child Care Centers
Mocan, H. Naci - 1995
Using a newly compiled data set, this paper estimates multi- product translog cost functions for 399 child care centers from California, Colorado, Connecticut, and North Carolina. Quality of child care is controlled by a quality index, which has been shown to be positively related to child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473853
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Inference with Imperfect Randomization : The Case of the Perry Preschool Program
Heckman, James J. - 2011
This paper considers the problem of making inferences about the effects of a program on multiple outcomes when the assignment of treatment status is imperfectly randomized. By imperfect randomization we mean that treatment status is reassigned after an initial randomization on the basis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461713