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Household affiliation of young adults in Italy and Norway. The significance of gender, sociocultural background, work and money
Addabbo, Tindara; Kjeldstad, Randi - 2013
Italy and Norway are characterized by different household patterns of young adults, with young Italians being more likely to live in their parents' house and young Norwegians more likely to live independently, alone or in multi-occupant households. This paper asks why, and how these differences...
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Mortality, fertility and old age care in a two-sex growth model
Andreassen, Leif - 2004
special importance. As a consequence, mortality affects fertility differently according to how much the government sector has …, the effect of decreasing mortality on fertility is found to be positive, while at a later stage, with higher levels of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968148
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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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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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Desired Fertility and Children Born across Time and Space
Günther, Isabel; Harttgen, Kenneth - 2013
been the world's fastest growing region over the last decade. Economists have often argued that high fertility rates are … mainly driven by women's demand for children (and not by family planning efforts) with low levels of unwanted fertility … relationship between wanted fertility and number of children born in a panel of 200 country-years controlling for country …
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