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Promoting integration of immigrants. Effects of free child care on child enrollment and parental employment

Drange, Nina; Telle, Kjetil - 2015

Proficiency in the language spoken by the majority population may be crucial for the cognitive development of children from immigrant families. High-quality child care is believed to promote such language skills, and it is thus of concern that children from immigrant families are...

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Child care, parental labor supply and tax revenue

Andresen, Martin Eckhoff; Havnes, Tarjei - 2018

We study the impact of child care for toddlers on the labor supply of mothers and fathers in Norway. For identification, we exploit the staggered expansion across municipalities following a large reform from 2002. Our IV-estimates indicate that child care use causes an increase in the labor...

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An up-to-date joint labor supply and child care choice model

Thoresen, Thor O.; Vattø, Trine E. - 2018

Norwegian parents of preschool children base their care choices on a completely different choice set from their predecessor. Now there is essentially only one type of nonparental care – center-based care – and on the parental side fathers take a more pivotal role in early childhood care. In...

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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of Child Care Subsidies

Thoresen, Thor Olav - 1995

A methodology to describe the distributional and behavioural effects of child care subsidies is presented within a micro simulation framework. We discuss the effects of changing the governmental policy to support families with preschool children, from today's subsidisation of spaces at child...

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A Discrete Choice Model for Labor Supply and Child Care

Kornstad, Tom; Thoresen, Thor O. - 2002

A discrete choice model for labor supply and child care for mothers of preschoolers is presented. The mothers are assumed to make choices from a finite set of job possibilities and from a finite set of child care options. The options in the markets for child care are characterized by opening...

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Effects of Family Policy Reforms in Norway. Results from a Joint Labor Supply and Child Care Choice Microsimulation Analysis

Kornstad, Tom; Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2006

Mothers of preschool children represent one part of the population that might be able to increase its labor supply. We discuss effects of family policy changes that encourage the labor supply of these mothers, as child care fee reductions and increased availability of center-based care. Effects...

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Kindergarten for all: Long run effects of a universal intervention

Drange, Nina; Havnes, Tarjei - 2012

Theory and evidence points towards particularly positive effects of high-quality child care for disadvantaged children. At the same time, disadvantaged families often sort out of existing programs. To counter differences in learning outcomes between children from different socioeconomic...

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What causes the child penalty? Evidence from same sex couples and policy reforms

Andresen, Martin Eckhoff; Nix, Emily - 2019

Women experience significant reductions in labor market income following the birth of children, while their male partners experience no such income drops. This "relative child penalty" has been well documented and accounts for a significant amount of the gender income gap. In this paper we do...

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International income poverty measurement: Which way now?

Klasen, Stephan; Krivobokova, Tatyana; Greb, Friederike; … - 2015

poverty line, expressed in PPP-adjusted dollars and linked to various rounds of the International Comparison of Prices (ICP …; they also roughly confirm the current shape of the proposed "weakly relative" poverty line. Using the new absolute line … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …

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Matching Household Surveys with DHS Data to Create Nationally Representative Time Series of Poverty: An Application to Bolivia

Grosse, Melanie; Klasen, Stephan; Spatz, Julius - 2009

Surveys (DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … paper, we adjust a technique developed for poverty mapping exercises to link urban household income surveys with DHS data to … poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

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