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Women's Work, Housework and Childcare, Before and During COVID-19
Boca, Daniela Del - 2020
Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the effect of COVID-19 on the working arrangements, housework and childcare of couples where both partners work. ties. According to our empirical estimates, changes to the amount of...
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Universal Childcare for the Youngest and the Maternal Labour Supply
Kunze, Astrid - 2019
In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit a nationwide reform that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in...
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Early Child Care and Labor Supply of Lower-Ses Mothers : A Randomized Controlled Trial
Hermes, Henning; Krauß, Marina; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2023
We present experimental evidence that enabling access to universal early child care for families with lower socioeconomic status (SES) increases maternal labor supply. Our intervention provides families with customized help for child care applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment...
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Beliefs About Maternal Labor Supply
Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Kaufmann, Katja; Rauh, … - 2023
This paper provides representative evidence on the perceived returns to maternal labor supply. We design a novel survey to elicit subjective expectations, and show that a mother’s decision to work is perceived to have sizable impacts on child skills, family outcomes, and the future labor...
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Mothers' Care : Reversing Early Childhood Health Shocks Through Parental Investments
Bellés-Obrero, Cristina - 2019
We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son’s of affected parents at delivery. Yet, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are...
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Parental Time Restrictions and the Cost of Children : Insights from a Survey Among Mothers
Borah, Melanie - 2019
In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental time restrictions. Building on a study by Koulovatianos et al. (2009) that introduces a novel way of using subjective income evaluation data for such estimations, we conduct a...
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Expansions in Paid Parental Leave and Mothers' Economic Progress
Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid - 2022
We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers reach top-pay jobs and executive positions, using eight Norwegian reforms. Up to a quarter of a century after childbirth, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers’ chances to...
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Wirkungen eines Betreuungsgeldes bei bedarfsgerechtem Ausbau frühkindlicher Kindertagesbetreuung : eine Mikrosimulationsstudie
Beninger, Denis; Bonin, Holger; Horstschräer, Julia; … - 2010
Arbeitsangebots, den Umfang externer Betreuung und die Intensität der Kinderbetreuung in der Familie entscheiden. Simulationen auf … Grundlage der geschätzten Modellparameter ergeben, dass ein Betreuungsgeld das Arbeitsangebot und die Nachfrage nach externen … umgekehrte Richtung. Im Gesamteffekt beider Maßnahmen fallen sowohl das Arbeitsangebot als auch die Inanspruchnahme von Betreuung …
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Determinants of child care participation
Coneus, Katja (contributor); Goeggel, Kathrin (contributor);  … - 2007
When estimating the determinants of child care participation, the simultaneity in mothers' decision to work and in the decision to use child care is a major challenge. In this study, we provide evidence on the determinants of institutional child care use accounting for the endogeneity of...
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A flying start? : maternity leave benefits and long-run outcomes of children
Carneiro, Pedro; Løken, Katrine V.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - In: Journal of political economy 123 (2015) 2, pp. 365-412
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