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How Policymakers Should Deal with the Delayed Benefits of Early Childhood Programs
Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2009
Child Parent Center program; 2) the Abecedarian program, which provides disadvantaged children with high-quality child care … and preschool from infancy to age five; 3) the Nurse Family Partnership, which provides low-income first-time mothers with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005009822
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Distributional Effects of Early Childhood Programs and Business Incentives and Their Implications for Policy
Bartik, Timothy J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2009
Child Parent Center program; 2) the Abecedarian program, which provides disadvantaged children with high-quality child care … and preschool from infancy to age five; 3) the Nurse Family Partnership, which provides low-income first-time mothers with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005009823
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Nonstandard Work and Child Care Choices of Married Mothers
Kimmel, Jean; Powell, Lisa - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2001
married mothers with young children. We draw on the 1992/93 Survey of Income and Program Participation to estimate two related … to improve the child care options for mothers with young children working in nonstandard jobs. … jointly estimate the work status and child care choice decisions of mothers, we find that the standard versus nonstandard work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005141950
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The Economics of Work and Family
Kimmel, Jean (contributor); Hoffman, Emily P. (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Kimmel and Hoffman present a set of topical, non-technical papers authored by nationally known experts in this field. Using an economic perspective, they confront work/family issues including child care (potentially the biggest obstacle to parents successfully integrating work and family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472688
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The Health and Wealth of a Nation: Employer-Based Health Insurance and the Affordable Care Act
Maxwell, Nan L. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
This research examines the behaviors of firms with respect to their provision of health care prior to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) deliberations and uses those behaviors to forecast changes in employer-sponsored health insurance that might occur once the ACA is fully implemented. Addonizio and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691953
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The Political Economy of Health Care Reforms
Zhou, Huizhong (contributor) - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
The political implications and economic consequences of health care reforms are the subject of this book. Its six chapters, authored by a select group of leading health economists, provide insights useful for evaluating further developments in the health care reform debate.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472691
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A Future of Good Jobs? America's Challenge in the Global Economy
Bartik, Timothy J. (contributor);  … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Leading Policy analysts examine the challenges facing U.S. labor market policy and propose concrete steps to make American workers and employers more competitive in a global economy.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472725
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The Efficiency of a Group-Specific Mandated Benefit Revisited: The Effect of Infertility Mandates
Lahey, Joanna N. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2011
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 relative cost of insuring older women of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643260
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Is There a Case for a "Second Demographic Transition?" Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 Fertility Decline
Bailey, Martha J.; Guldi, Melanie; Hershbein, Brad J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114760
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Single Mothers Working at Night: Standard Work, Child Care Subsidies, and Implications for Welfare Reform
Tekin, Erdal - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2004
This paper estimates the effect of child care subsidies on the standard work decision of single mothers and examines … in the probability of single mothers' working at standard jobs. When the effect of subsidy receipt is allowed to differ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005116758