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Mothers' care : reversing early childhood health shocks through parental investments
Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; Cabrales, Antonio; … - 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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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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The Long-Run Impacts of Early Childhood Education : Evidence From a Failed Policy Experiment
DeCicca, Philip - 2011
We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy … experiment in British Columbia, Canada. Our findings imply starting Kindergarten one year late substantially reduces the … for low income students and males. Estimates suggest that entering kindergarten early may have a detrimental effect on …
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A matter of time? : measuring effects of public schooling expansions on families’ constraints
Gibbs, Chloe R.; Wikle, Jocelyn; Wilson, Riley - 2024
—through duration expansions to the kindergarten day—to better understand mothers’ and families’ constraints. We first show that mothers … of children in full-day kindergarten spend significantly more time at work, less time with their children, less time …-day kindergarteners. Exploiting full-day kindergarten variation across place and time from 1992 through 2022, combined with the narrow age …
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Extracurricular educational programs and school readiness : evidence from a quasi-experiment with preschool children
Makles, Anna; Schneider, Kerstin - 2016
This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting …
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Is there a case for public provision of private goods if preferences are heterogeneous? : an example with day care
Blomquist, Nils Sören; Christiansen, Vidar - 2003
A strong case for public provision of certain private goods has been established for an economy in which individuals have homogeneous preferences but differ in skill levels. There has been a critique of this model/mechanism arguing that heterogeneous preferences at a given skill level would...
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Transfers to families with children as a principal-agent problem
Cigno, Alessandro; Luporini, Annalisa; Pettini, Anna - 2000
The relationship between government and parents is modelled as a principal-agent problem, with the former in the role of principal and the latter in the role of agents. We make three major points. The first is that, if the well-being of the child depends not only on luck, but also on parental...
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Optimal taxation and the household
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2016
This paper analyses optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. It models the interaction between wage rates and variation in child care prices and productivities as determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second...
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Promoting child development in a universal preschool system : a field experiment
Rege, Mari; Størksen, Ingunn; Solli, Ingeborg Foldøy; … - 2019
This study tests an intervention that introduces a structured curriculum for five-year olds into the universal preschool context of Norway. We conduct a field experiment with 691 five-year-olds in 71 preschools and measure treatment impacts on children's development in mathematics, language and...
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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families
Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019
We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....
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