Child Parent Center program; 2) the Abecedarian program, which provides disadvantaged children with high-quality child care …

Child Parent Center program; 2) the Abecedarian program, which provides disadvantaged children with high-quality child care …

. Using an economic perspective, they confront work/family issues including child care (potentially the biggest obstacle to … parents successfully integrating work and family priorities), how parents balance time between work and family obligations …

Bartik provides evidence showing that investment in quality preschool education provides economic payoffs, particularly …

-specific accounts sometimes offered (wage liberalization, border opening, increased quality of education). But we find some support for … institutional and organizational explanations, particularly the high productivity of education in restructuring and entrepreneurial …

This paper provides new information on what proportion of individuals spend their adult work lives in their childhood … investments in children may pay off for the state or local area that makes these investments. A surprisingly large proportion of …

This paper examines the labor market effects of state health insurance mandates that increase the cost of employing a … demographically identifiable group. State mandates requiring that health insurance plans cover infertility treatment raise the …

married mothers with young children. We draw on the 1992/93 Survey of Income and Program Participation to estimate two related …, controlling for the potential endogeneity of the nonstandard work decision, we find that being a nonstandard worker significantly … jointly estimate the work status and child care choice decisions of mothers, we find that the standard versus nonstandard work …