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Do childcare policies increase maternal employment? : subsidized childcare fosters maternal employment, but employment status, childcare quality, and availability matter

Vuri, Daniela - 2016

Women's labor force participation has rapidly increased in most countries, but mothers still struggle to achieve a satisfactory work-life balance. Childcare allows the primary caregiver, usually the mother, to take time away from childrearing for employment. Family policies that subsidize...

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Parental leave and maternal labor supply : parental leave increases the family-work balance, but may have negative impacts on mothers' careers

Kunze, Astrid - 2016

Numerous studies have investigated whether the provision and generosity of parental leave affects the employment and career prospects of women. Parental leave systems typically provide either short unpaid leave mandated by the firm, as in the US, or more generous and universal leave mandated by...

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Maternity leave versus early childcare : what are the long-term consequences for children? : despite increasingly generous parental leave schemes their advantages over subsidized c...

Gupta, Nabanita Datta - 2018

childcare programs have now completed education and entered the labor market, allowing an investigation of these programs’ long …

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Parental leave and maternal labor supply : parental leave increases the family-work balance, but prolonged leave may have negative impacts on mothers' careers

Kunze, Astrid - 2022

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Maternity leave versus early childcare : what are the long-term consequences for children? : despite increasingly generous parental leave schemes their advantages over subsidized c...

Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Jessen, Jonas - 2023

There is growing agreement among parents in high-income countries that having a working mother does not harm a preschool child. Yet, research is ongoing on what the long-term effects on children are of being looked after at home (primarily by their mothers) or in childcare. Most studies find...

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Does education predict gender role attitudes? : evidence from European datasets

Deole, Sumit S.; Zeydanli, Tugba - 2021

This paper presents the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of individuals' education on their attitudes … of education on gender role attitudes, we exploit the exogenous variation in individuals' education induced by the … education instigates egalitarian gender role attitudes equivalent of 0.1-0.3 of a standard deviation. While education …

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Migration and university education : an empirical (macro) link

Akkoyunlu, Şule; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2022

Distinguishing between short-run and long-run outcomes we provide new insight into the relationship between education … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-linear long-run and short-run relationship between home country university education and Turkish migration to Germany over 1970 …

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Age effects in education : a double disadvantage for second-generation immigrant children

Abatemarco, Antonio; Cavallo, Mariagrazia; Marino, … - 2021

A double disadvantage occurs when the interaction of two disadvantages generates an additional disadvantage. We show that second-generation immigrant children in the Italian primary school experience a double disadvantage that, relative to the average native, reduces scores in Italian by 17% and...

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Does education predict gender role attitudes? : evidence from European datasets

Deole, Sumit S.; Zeydanli, Tugba - 2021

This paper presents the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of individuals' education on their attitudes …-sectional dataset with information from 13 Western European countries for the analysis. The causal impact of education on gender role … attitudes is estimated by exploiting the exogenous variation in individuals' education induced by the compulsory school reforms …

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Beyond the average : ethnic capital heterogeneity and intergenerational transmission of education

Chakrabortya, Tanika; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, … - 2019

Estimating the effect of ethnic capital on human capital investment decisions is complicated by the endogeneity of immigrants' location choice, unobserved local correlates and the reflection problem. We exploit the institutional setting of a rare immigrant settlement policy in Germany, that...

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