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Short- and long-term effects of universal preschool : evidence from the Arab population in Israel
DeMalach, Elad; Schlosser, Analia - 2024
-in-differences research design compares cohorts of children in treatment localities before and after the Law's introduction to equivalent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463580
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The influence of child care on maternal health and mother-child interaction
Kröll, Alexandra; Borck, Rainald - 2013
indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found … with regard to mothers ́mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764447
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Taxation and parental time allocation under different assumptions on altruism
Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2014
reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256101
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Three family policies to reconcile fertility and labor supply
Fenge, Robert; Stadler, Lisa - 2014
, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388733
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Behavioral barriers and the socioeconomic gap in child care enrollment
Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Peter, Frauke; … - 2021
Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less … care for lower-SES children. In our RCT in Germany with highly subsidized child care (n > 600), treated families receive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612969
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The baby year parental leave reform in the GDR and its impact on children's long-term life satisfaction
Heisig, Katharina; Zierow, Larissa - 2019
children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064990
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Local economic consequences of investment in children : capitalization of child care services
Borge, Lars-Erik; Rattsø, Jørn - 2017
Recent analyses of intergenerational mobility show that investments in children pay big dividends. The priority of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011780592
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The short-run macro implications of school and child-care closures
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola; Kuhn, Moritz; Tertilt, Michele - 2020
The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … German workforce have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all working hours …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231511
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Early child care and child development : for whom it works and why
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2012 - First version: October 2009, This version: December 2012
Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children's age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009688522
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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 unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-run effect of JU enrollment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434454