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subsidized child care in Spain in the early 1990s, addressing the impact on mothers' short- and long-run employment outcomes (up … worked (9%) of mothers with age-eligible (3-year-old) children, and that these effects persisted over time. Heterogeneity … matters. While persistence is strong among mothers with a high-school degree, the effects of the program on maternal …
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We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers …. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … substantial differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives …
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domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior …
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two or more kids. Heterogeneity analysis suggests no causal effects of fertility on female employment among mothers with … less than college education and older mothers (born before 1978). Furthermore, we find evidence for the interaction of … estimates for highly educated mothers and for mothers born after 1977 …
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This paper investigates how mothers' decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers …. Identification is based on the introduction of the Cash-for-Care program in Norway in 1998, which increased mothers' incentives to … five. However, from age six, we can no longer see any effects. The effects seem to dissipate because most mothers remained …
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Public child care is expected to assist families in reconciling work with family life. Yet, empirical evidence for the relevance of public child care to maternal employment is inconclusive. We exploit the introduction of a legal claim to a place in kindergarten in Germany, which was contingent...
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effects: high educated non-mothers are persuaded by the informational treatments to increase their intended use of formal … child care (and to pay more); whereas low educated non-mothers to reduce their intended labor supply. These findings are …
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effects: high educated non-mothers are persuaded by the informational treatments to increase their intended use of formal … child care (and to pay more); whereas low educated non-mothers to reduce their intended labor supply. These findings are …
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examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following … weekly work hours of employed mothers of one-to-three year-old children by 6 to 9% and that their wage incomes may have risen …
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child care on maternal employment, despite a strong correlation. Instead of increasing mothers' labor supply, the new …
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