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Employment industry and occupational continuity in Germany : from the Nazi regime to the post-war economic miracle
Puhani, Patrick A. - 2014
Using retrospective survey data that covers 1939, 1950, 1960, and 1971, I compare individual-level changes in employment industry and occupational status in Germany from the beginning of World War II to the post-war reconstruction era dubbed the Economic Miracle (Wirtschaftswunder). This...
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Secondary childcare in the ATUS : what does it measure?
Stewart, Jay Charles; Allard, Mary Dorinda - 2015
quality of these data. This paper investigates whether the secondary childcare questions in the ATUS are measuring the stated … construct alternative estimates that exclude time spent in secondary childcare that is inconsistent with other data collected … during the interview and find that the ATUS measure overestimates secondary childcare by at most 5 percent or about 16 …
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The effectiveness of policies that promote labor force participation of women with children : a collection of national studies
Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Haider, Steven; Nielsen, Helena Skyt - 2015
Numerous countries have enacted policies to promote the labor force participation of women around the years of childbearing, and unsurprisingly, many research articles have been devoted to evaluating their effectiveness. Perhaps more surprisingly, however, six such articles were submitted...
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Childcare subsidies and household labor supply
Guner, Nezih; Kaygusuz, Remzi; Ventura, Gustavo - 2014
What would be the aggregate effects of adopting a more generous and universal childcare subsidy program in the U.S.? We … largest at the bottom of the skill distribution. Fully subsidized childcare available to all households leads to long … households in fertility and childcare expenditures. …
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Commuting time and household responsibilities : evidence using propensity score matching
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2015
, we analyze the relationship between commuting time, and the time devoted to home production and childcare. To deal with … effect for men, while childcare time has an effect on women's commuting time behavior only. Our results explain why prior …
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Early child care and child outcomes : the role of grandparents
Del Boca, Daniela; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, … - 2014
In this paper, we focus on the impact of early grandparents' care on child cognitive outcomes, in the short and medium term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children looked after in a formal care centre, children cared by grandparents (as well as parents) are...
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Does professional development of preschool teachers improve child socio-emotional outcomes?
Jensen, Bente; Jensen, Peter; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2015
From 2011 to 2013 a randomized controlled trial has been run in Danish preschools to obtain evidence on improvements of early childhood education by providing training to the preschool teachers. The purpose of the intervention is to improve child socio-emotional outcomes (measured by SDQ),...
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Gender, time-use, and fertility recovery in industrialized countries
García-Manglano, Javier; Nollenberger, Natalia; … - 2014
This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed world. We review the theoretical foundations for this link, and assess the existing evidence suggesting that a more equal division of labor within the home leads to more children,...
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Cognitive and non-cognitive costs of daycare 0-2 for girls
Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea; Zanella, Giulio - 2016
Exploiting admission thresholds in a Regression Discontinuity Design, we study the causal effects of daycare at age 0–2 on cognitive and non-cognitive outcomes at age 8–14. One additional month in daycare reduces IQ by 0.5% (4.5% of a standard deviation). Effects for conscientiousness are...
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Is childcare bad for the mental health of grandparents? : evidence from SHARE
Brunello, Giorgio; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2016
exploits the variation in the timing of interviews across individuals and the fact that childcare declines with the age of … grandchildren. We find that 10 additional hours of childcare per month, a 31 percent increase with respect to the sample average ….9 percentage points for grandfathers. These results suggest that policies that substitute informal with formal childcare can …
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