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Corneo, Giacomo - 2007

We develop an economic theory of tolerance where lifestyles and traits are invested with symbolic value by people. Value systems are endogenous and taught by parents to their children. In conjunction with actual behavior, value systems determine the esteem enjoyed by individuals. Intolerant...

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Efficiency in Family Bargaining : Living Arrangements and Caregiving Decisions of Adult Children and Disabled Elderly Parents

Pezzin, Liliana E. - 2007

In this paper, we use a two-stage bargaining model to analyze the living arrangement of a disabled elderly parent and the assistance provided to the parent by her adult children. The first stage determines the living arrangement: the parent can live in a nursing home, live alone in the...

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Parental Leave, (In)Formal Childcare and Long-Term Child Outcomes

Danzer, Natalia - 2017

eligibility for extended parental leave and geographical variation in formal childcare. We find that estimated treatment effects … on long-term child outcomes differ substantially according to the availability of formal childcare and the mother … capital outcomes only if the reform induces a replacement of informal childcare with maternal care. We conclude that care …

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Children of a (Policy) Revolution : The Introduction of Universal Child Care and Its Effect on Fertility

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2014

What role does affordable and widely available public child care play for fertility? We exploit a major German reform generating large temporal and spatial variation in child care coverage for children under the age of three. Our precise and robust estimates on birth register data reveal that...

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Local Economic Consequences of Investment in Children : Capitalization of Child Care Services

Borge, Lars-Erik - 2018

Recent analyses of intergenerational mobility show that investments in children pay big dividends. The priority of resources in early childhood also affects the working of the local economy. Geographic variation in child care services motivates location of families and thereby influences housing...

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Birth Order and Delinquency : Evidence from Denmark and Florida

Breining, Sanni Nørgaard - 2017

Birth order has been found to have a surprisingly large influence on educational attainment, yet much less is known about the role of birth order on delinquency outcomes such as disciplinary problems in school, juvenile delinquency, and adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative...

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The Influence of Child Care on Maternal Health and Mother-Child Interaction

Kröll, Alexandra; Borck, Rainald - 2021

In Germany, formal child care coverage rates have increased markedly over the past few decades. The present paper is concerned with how mothers’ mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not. Furthermore, the effects of formal child care...

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Early Child Care and Child Development : For Whom it Works and Why

Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2021

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care...

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Taxing Childcare : Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children

Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2021

Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new … and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that public daycare and informal … childcare are complements. Female labor force participation declines and the response is strongest for single parents and low …

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Intergenerational Transmission of Skills During Childhood and Optimal Public Policy

Casarico, Alessandra; Micheletto, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2021

The paper characterizes the optimal tax policy and the optimal quality of day care services in a OLG model with warm-glow altruism where parental choices over child care arrangements affect the probability that the child becomes a high-skilled adult in a type-specific way. With respect to...

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