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The impact of quality rating and improvement systems on families' child care choices and the supply of child care labor

Herbst, Chris M. - 2016

Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) are increasingly deployed by states to monitor and improve the quality of non-parental child care settings. By making information on program quality accessible to the public, QRIS attempts to alter parental preferences for quality-related attributes...

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Offline effects of online connecting : the impact of broadband diffusion on teen fertility decisions

Guldi, Melanie; Herbst, Chris M. - 2015

teens make. Specifically, we look at the relationship between increased broadband access and teen fertility. We hypothesize … that increasing access to high-speed internet can influence fertility decisions by changing the size of the market as well … broadband internet on teen fertility as well as the mechanisms underlying this effect. Our results suggest that increased …

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The impact of child care subsidies on child well-being : evidence from geographic variation in the distance to social service agencies

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2010

In recent years, child care subsidies have become an integral part of federal and state efforts to move economically disadvantaged parents from welfare to work. Although previous empirical studies consistently show that these employment-related subsidies raise work levels among this group,...

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Child care subsidies and childhood obesity

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2009

Child care subsidies play a critical role in facilitating the transition of disadvantaged mothers from welfare to work. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income...

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Child care subsidies, maternal well-being, and child-parent interactions : evidence from three nationally representative datasets

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2012

A complete account of the U.S. child care subsidy system requires an understanding of its implications for both parental and child well-being. Although the effects of child care subsidies on maternal employment and child development have been recently studied, many other dimensions of family...

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The geographic accessibility of child care subsidies and evidence on the impact of subsidy receipt on childhood obesity

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2011

This paper examines the impact of the spatial accessibility of public human services agencies on the likelihood of receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location of virtually every human services agency in the U.S....

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Universal child care, maternal employment, and children's long-run outcomes : evidence from the US Lanham Act of 1940

Herbst, Chris M. - 2013

benefits of the Lanham Act accrued largely to the most economically disadvantaged adults. Together, these findings shed light …

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The impact of non-parental child care on child development : evidence from the summer participation "dip"

Herbst, Chris M. - 2012

Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive development, few studies deal convincingly with the potential endogeneity of child care choices. Using a panel of infants and toddlers from the Birth cohort of the Early Childhood...

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Child care over the business cycle

Brown, Jessica H.; Herbst, Chris M. - 2021

We estimate the impact of macroeconomic conditions on the child care market. We find that the industry is substantially more exposed to the business cycle than other low-wage industries and responds more strongly to negative shocks than positive ones. Indeed, child care employment requires more...

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What do parents value in a child care provider? : evidence from Yelp consumer reviews

Herbst, Chris M.; Desouza, Kevin C.; Alashri, Saud; … - 2018

This paper exploits novel data and empirical methods to examine parental preferences for child care. Specifically, we analyze consumer reviews of child care businesses posted on the website Yelp.com. A key advantage of Yelp is that it contains a large volume of unstructured information about a...

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