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Kindergarten for all: Long run effects of a universal intervention

Drange, Nina; Havnes, Tarjei - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012

Theory and evidence points towards particularly positive effects of high-quality child care for disadvantaged children. At the same time, disadvantaged families often sort out of existing programs. To counter differences in learning outcomes between children from different socioeconomic...

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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of Child Care Subsidies

Thoresen, Thor Olav - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1995

A methodology to describe the distributional and behavioural effects of child care subsidies is presented within a micro simulation framework. We discuss the effects of changing the governmental policy to support families with preschool children, from today's subsidisation of spaces at child...

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A Discrete Choice Model for Labor Supply and Child Care

Kornstad, Tom; Thoresen, Thor O. - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2002

A discrete choice model for labor supply and child care for mothers of preschoolers is presented. The mothers are assumed to make choices from a finite set of job possibilities and from a finite set of child care options. The options in the markets for child care are characterized by opening...

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Promoting integration of immigrants. Effects of free child care on child enrollment and parental employment

Drange, Nina; Telle, Kjetil - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2015

Proficiency in the language spoken by the majority population may be crucial for the cognitive development of children from immigrant families. High-quality child care is believed to promote such language skills, and it is thus of concern that children from immigrant families are...

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Beyond LATE with a discrete instrument. Heterogeneity in the quantity-quality interaction of children

Brinch, Christian N.; Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012

-quality model of fertility, a large and growing body of empirical research has used binary instruments to estimate LATEs of family … they possess some knowledge of the idiosyncratic effects in the fertility decision. …

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The relationship between earnings and first birth probability among Norwegian men and women 1994-2008

Kaldager, Rannveig V. - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2014

that the correlation between earnings and fertility has become more positive over time for women but is virtually unchanged … men. I suggest that decreasing opportunity costs of motherhood as well as strategic timing of fertility to reduce wage …

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Mother’s employment and fertility in Norway

Gerster, Mette; Lappegård, Trude - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2010

This paper concerns the effect of employment status on second- and third-birth intensities for Norwegian mothers in the period 1994-2002. Due to unobserved heterogeneity possibly affecting both the birth and the employment processes we employ a simultaneous equations approach for hazard models,...

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Family Policies and Fertility: Parents' Parental Leave Use, Childcare Availability, the Introduction of Childcare Cash Benefit and Continued Childbearing in Norway

Lappegård, Trude - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2008

We address the relationship between family policies and fertility in Norway, including three somewhat different … fertility outcomes, there is wide heterogeneity in how they respond to the policies. …

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Can a cash transfer to families change fertility behaviour?

Andersen, Synøve N.; Drange, Nina; Lappegård, Trude - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2015

of a cash-for-care (CFC) policy introduced in Norway in 1998, and compare the fertility behaviour of eligible and … a slower progression to both second and third births, and short term fertility is hence lower in this group. The …

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The effect of childhood family size on fertility in adulthood. New evidence form IV estimation

Cools, Sara; Hart, Rannveig Kaldager - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2015

While fertility is positively correlated across generations, the causal effect of children's experience with larger … sibships on their own fertility in adulthood is poorly understood. Using the sex composition of the two first-born children as … an instrumental variable, we estimate the effect of sibship size on adult fertility. Estimations are done on high …

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