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the increased demands of housework, childcare and home-schooling. Much of the additional burden has been shouldered by … pronounced during the second wave, it was still higher than pre-COVID-19. The time spent by women on housework, childcare, and …
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of COVID-19 on the working arrangements, housework and childcare of couples where both partners work. Our results show … that most of the additional workload associated to COVID-19 falls on women while childcare activities are more equally … childcare and working arrangements is more symmetric, with both women and men spending less time with their children if they …
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working parents spend less time engaged in primary childcare than their counterparts without jobs but more than employed peers …
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exposed to two informational treatments on the positive consequences of formal childcare on children future educational …
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This paper critically reviews what we know about the long-term effects of parental leave and early childhood education programs. We find only limited evidence that expansions of parental leave durations improved long-run educational or labor market outcomes of the children whose parents were...
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Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less likely to be enrolled. We study whether reducing behavioral barriers in the application process increases enrollment in child care for lower-SES children. In our RCT in Germany...
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We provide the first causal evidence of discrimination against migrants seeking child care. We send emails from fictitious parents to 18, 000 early child care centers across Germany, asking if there is a slot available and how to apply. Randomly varying names to signal migration background, we...
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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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