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Child care subsidies, wages, and employment of single mothers

Tekin, Erdal - 2002

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment and child care payment decisions of single mothers in the … estimate a model that examines the effects of the price of child care and the wage rate on employment decision as well as the … decision to use paid child care among single mothers. The model distinguishes between the full-time and part-time employment …

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The determinants and consequences of child care subsidies for single mothers

Blau, David; Tekin, Erdal - 2001

care subsidy and the effects of subsidy receipt on employment, school attendance, job search, and welfare participation. We … in welfare. Ordinary least squares estimates show positive and significant effects of subsidy receipt on employment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404078

Does child abuse cause crime?

Currie, Janet M. (contributor); Tekin, Erdal (contributor) - 2006

Child maltreatment, which includes both child abuse and child neglect, is a major social problem. This paper focuses on measuring the effects of child maltreatment on crime using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). We focus on crime because it is one of...

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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

disadvantaged parents from welfare to work. Although previous empirical studies consistently show that these employment … that conditions eligibility on parental employment and deemphasizes child care quality. -- child care ; subsidy …

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Youth depression and future criminal behavior

Anderson, D. Mark; Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal - 2012

While the contemporaneous association between mental health problems and criminal behavior has been explored in the literature, the long-term consequences of such problems, depression in particular, have received much less attention. In this paper, we examine the effect of depression during...

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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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Catholic schools and bad behavior

Mocan, Naci; Scafidi, Benjamin; Tekin, Erdal - 2002

Although there is a sizeable literature of the effect of private school attendance on academic student outcomes, there is a dearth of studies of the impact of school sector on nonacademic outcomes. Using a rich data set, we analyze the impact of Catholic school attendance on the likelihood that...

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Child care subsidy receipt, employment, and child care choices of single mothers

Tekin, Erdal (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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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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Employment, wages, and alcohol consumption in Russia : evidence from panel data

Tekin, Erdal - 2002

This paper examines the effects of alcohol consumption on employment and wages for males and females in Russia. Both … impact on employment and wages. Further, there is some evidence in favor of an inverse U-shaped relationship between alcohol … association diminishes for the employment models for males and females. For the wage models, controlling for unobserved …

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