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If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands : how do mothers and fathers really feel about child caregiving?

Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - 2013

This paper considers the question posed by popular media, do women like doing child care more than men? Using experienced emotions data paired with 24 hour time diaries from the 2010 American Time Use Survey, the paper explores gender differences in how men and women who have done some child...

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Intensive mothering and well-being : the role of education and child care activity

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Sevilla, Almudena - 2016

be the dominant cultural framework in the United States. Yet there is little evidence about how mothers differ in their … child care activity mothers engage in. We document that, compared to less-educated mothers, higher educated mothers report … wellbeing among mothers across the educational distribution does not depend on the type of child care activity and suggests that …

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Maternal life satisfaction and child development from toddlerhood to adolescence

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2023

-cognitive child development outcomes. We identify a strong positive association between mothers' life satisfaction and their children …. Our findings suggest that mothers' life satisfaction is beneficial for their children's development at all ages and that … data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) which captures maternal life satisfaction and numerous cognitive and non …

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Public child care and mothers' career trajectories

Huber, Katrin; Rolvering, Geske - 2023

We study the impact of public child care on mothers' career trajectories, focusing on qualitative dimensions of career … choices. Using an event study approach, we find that child care helps mothers to return to the labor market more quickly and … across mothers. …

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Life-cycle and intergenerational effects of child care reforms

Chan, Marc K.; Liu, Kai - 2015

-scale child care reform, which provided generous cash transfers to mothers who did not use formal child care facilities. Combining …-education women. This leads to lower reading scores among children, primarily as a result of mothers shifting away from formal care …

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The evolving impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender inequality in the U.S. labor market: the COVID motherhood penalty

Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2021

We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school-age children have widened but not for those with younger children....

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Early childhood care and cognitive development

Chaparro, Juan; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, Matthew - 2020

This paper combines multiple sources of information on early childhood development in a unified model for analysis of a wide range of early childhood policy interventions. We develop a model of child care in which households decide both the quantities and qualities of maternal and non-maternal...

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Childcare and maternal employment : evidence from Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh; Hiraga, Masako; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2019

Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and the few recent studies offer mixed results. We attempt to fill these gaps by analyzing several latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey...

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Child care in the United States : markets, policy, and evidence

Herbst, Chris M. - 2022

Participation in non-parental child care arrangements is now the norm for preschool-age children in the U.S. However, child care services are becoming increasingly expensive for many families, and quality is highly uneven across providers and sectors, raising questions about the impact of child...

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Early child care and labor supply of lower-SES mothers : a randomized controlled trial

Hermes, Henning; Krauß, Marina; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2022

applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment among lower-SES families. The treatment increases lower-SES mothers' full …-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers' earnings by 22%. The effect on full …

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