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Market work and motherhood decisions in contexts

Del Boca, Daniela (contributor); Pasqua, Silvia (contributor) - 2008

differences in participation and fertility rates for women from different European countries can be attributed to the … educational levels, childcare and optional parental leaves have a larger impact on the fertility and participation decisions of … women at lower educational levels. -- Employment ; fertility ; childcare ; parental leave …

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Does breastfeeding support at work help mothers and employers at the same time?

Del Bono, Emilia; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2012

This paper asks whether the availability of breastfeeding facilities at the workplace helps to reconcile breastfeeding and work commitments. Using data from the 2005 UK Infant Feeding Survey, we model the joint probability to return to work and breastfeeding and analyse its association with the...

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The difficult case of persuading women : experimental evidence from childcare

Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2013

Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...

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Early child care and child outcomes : the role of grandparents

Del Boca, Daniela; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, … - 2014

In this paper, we focus on the impact of early grandparents' care on child cognitive outcomes, in the short and medium term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children looked after in a formal care centre, children cared by grandparents (as well as parents) are...

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Mothers' labour market participation : do grandparents make it easier?

Arpino, Bruno; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Tavares, Lara P. - 2012

Childcare arrangements are key in women's ability to juggle motherhood and working outside the home. As such, the study of the access to childcare and its use is of great policy relevance. We focus on a particular kind of informal childcare, the one provided by grandparents. Empirically,...

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How parenting courses affect families' time-use? : evidence from an RCT experiment in Italy

Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Schiavon, Lucia - 2022

This paper investigates the impact of parenting courses on families' time use with their children in urban areas in Italy. Courses aimed at raising parental awareness of the importance of educational activities were offered in four cities (Naples, Reggio Emilia, Teramo and Palermo) within the...

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Exploring the impacts of public childcare on mothers and children in Italy : does rationing play a role?

Brilli, Ylenia; Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2011

This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children's scholastic achievements. We use a newly available dataset containing individual standardized test scores of pupils attending second grade of primary school in 2008-09 in...

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Early childcare, child cognitive outcomes and inequalities in the UK

Del Boca, Daniela; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, … - 2016

The objective of this research is to explore the impact of early childcare on child cognitive outcomes. We utilize the Millennium Cohort Survey (MCS) for the United Kingdom, which provides very detailed information about several modalities of childcare as well as several child outcomes. In our...

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Evaluation of the reggio approach to early education

Biroli, Pietro; Del Boca, Daniela; Heckman, James J.; … - 2017

We evaluate the Reggio Approach using non-experimental data on individuals from the cities of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Padova belonging to one of five age cohorts: ages 50, 40, 30, 18, and 6 as of 2012. The treated were exposed to municipally offered infant-toddler (ages 0–3) and preschool...

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Use of extra-school time and child behaviours : evidence from the UK

Meroni, Elena Claudia; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, … - 2018

In this paper, we study the effects of extra-school activities on children's non-cognitive development, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK) and focusing on children aged 7-11 years old. We classify the time spent out of school into six homogenous groups of activities, using...

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