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Local economic consequences of investment in children : capitalization of child care services
Borge, Lars-Erik; Rattsø, Jørn - 2017
resources in early childhood also affects the working of the local economy. Geographic variation in child care services … universal child care during a period of national reform to raise and equalize the child care coverage across Norway. We apply a … level data about quantity and quality of child care and various community controls. Given a reform driving the expansion of …
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Parental time restrictions and the cost of children : insights from a survey among mothers
Borah, Melanie; Knabe, Andreas; Pahlke, Kevin - 2018
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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Job location decisions and the effect of children on the employment gender gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for …
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Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children
Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018
Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...
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What explains fertility? : evidence from Italian pension reforms
Billari, Francesco C.; Galasso, Vincenzo - 2009
Why do people have kids in developed societies? We propose an empirical test of two alternative theories - children as "consumptionʺ vs. "investmentʺ good. We use as a natural experiment the Italian pension reforms of the 90s that introduced a clear discontinuity in the treatment across...
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Effects of prenatal and early life malnutrition : evidence from the Greek famine
Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 2010
This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...
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The effect of investment in children's education on fertility in 1816 Prussia
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
transition from Malthusian stagnation to modern economic growth. This paper contributes to the literature on the child quantity …
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Sports and child development
Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Steinmayr, Andreas - 2011 - This draft: October 2011
Despite the relevance of cognitive and non-cognitive skills for professional success, their formation is not yet fully understood. This study fills part of this gap by analyzing the effect of sports club participation, one of the most popular extra-curricular activities, on children's skill...
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Gender power, fertility, and family policy
Kemnitz, Alexander; Thum, Marcel - 2012
The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the spouses' welfare function, this shift in power may lead to a time consistency problem. The allocation of resources after the birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal...
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The influence of child care on maternal health and mother-child interaction
Kröll, Alexandra; Borck, Rainald - 2013
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 usage on mother-child interaction are examined. The analysis is based on data …
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