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Intra-Household Work Timing : The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care

Klaveren, Chris van - 2011

This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this study identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...

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The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure : Theory and Evidence

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2012

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home...

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Public Child Care and Mothers' Labor Supply - Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2013

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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Can't Buy Mommy's Love? Universal Childcare and Children's Long-Term Cognitive Development

Felfe, Christina - 2013

What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year …

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To Work or Not to Work? The Effect of Child-Care Subsidies on the Labour Supply of Parents

Kosonen, Tuomas - 2013

This paper studies the effect of child-care subsidies on parental labour supply. I use variation arising from changes …

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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women : Experimental Evidence from Childcare

Galasso, Vincenzo - 2013

exposed to two informational treatments on the positive consequences of formal childcare on children future educational …

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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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Child Care Subsidies, Quality, and Optimal Income Taxation

Bastani, Spencer - 2017

In this paper we examine the desirability of subsidizing child care expenditures in a model where parents can choose both the quantity and the quality of child care services they purchase in the market. Our vehicle of analysis is a Mirrleesian optimal tax framework where child care services not...

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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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Birth Order and Delinquency : Evidence from Denmark and Florida

Breining, Sanni - 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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