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Do childcare policies increase maternal employment? : subsidized childcare fosters maternal employment, but employment status, childcare quality, and availability matter

Vuri, Daniela - 2016

Women's labor force participation has rapidly increased in most countries, but mothers still struggle to achieve a satisfactory work-life balance. Childcare allows the primary caregiver, usually the mother, to take time away from childrearing for employment. Family policies that subsidize...

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Parental leave and maternal labor supply : parental leave increases the family-work balance, but may have negative impacts on mothers' careers

Kunze, Astrid - 2016

Numerous studies have investigated whether the provision and generosity of parental leave affects the employment and career prospects of women. Parental leave systems typically provide either short unpaid leave mandated by the firm, as in the US, or more generous and universal leave mandated by...

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Maternity leave versus early childcare : what are the long-term consequences for children? : despite increasingly generous parental leave schemes their advantages over subsidized c...

Gupta, Nabanita Datta - 2018

childcare programs have now completed education and entered the labor market, allowing an investigation of these programs’ long …

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Parental leave and maternal labor supply : parental leave increases the family-work balance, but prolonged leave may have negative impacts on mothers' careers

Kunze, Astrid - 2022

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Does information about inequality and discrimination in early child care affect policy preferences?

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024

We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n ≈ 4, 800). We observe strong misperceptions about migrant-native inequalities in early child care that vary by...

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Early child care and labor supply of lower-SES mothers : a randomized controlled trial

Hermes, Henning; Krauß, Marina; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2022

We present experimental evidence that enabling access to universal early child care for families with lower socioeconomic status (SES) increases maternal labor supply. Our intervention provides families with customized help for child care applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment...

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Maternity leave versus early childcare : what are the long-term consequences for children? : despite increasingly generous parental leave schemes their advantages over subsidized c...

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Jessen, Jonas - 2023

There is growing agreement among parents in high-income countries that having a working mother does not harm a preschool child. Yet, research is ongoing on what the long-term effects on children are of being looked after at home (primarily by their mothers) or in childcare. Most studies find...

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Fertility effects of college education : evidence from the German educational expansion

Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; Westphal, Matthias - 2019

Using arguably exogenous variation in college expansions we estimate the effects of college education on female … fertility. While college education reduces the probability of becoming a mother, college-educated mothers have more children … than mothers without a college education. Lower child–income penalties of college-educated mothers of two relative to …

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More education does make you happier - unless you are unemployed

Bertermann, Alexander; Kamhöfer, Daniel A.; … - 2023

This paper investigates the causal effect of education on life satisfaction, exploring effect heterogeneity along … longitudinal information, we also address the endogeneity of employment status. We find a positive effect of education on life … function as a unifying explanation for the asymmetric effect of education on life satisfaction. …

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