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The Long-Run Impacts of Early Childhood Education : Evidence From a Failed Policy Experiment
DeCicca, Philip - 2011
We investigate short and long-term effects of early childhood education using variation created by a unique policy … experiment in British Columbia, Canada. Our findings imply starting Kindergarten one year late substantially reduces the … for low income students and males. Estimates suggest that entering kindergarten early may have a detrimental effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461572
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Child Care Subsidy Programs
Blau, David M. - 2000
Child care and early education subsidies are an important part of government efforts to increase economic independence … increasing economic independence and improving child outcomes. All child care and early education subsidies affect both work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470944
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Child Care and the Welfare to Work Transition
Lemke, Robert J. - 2000
education affect the probability that current and former welfare recipients will work. Regarding the child care market, we find … education serve to increase employment. To be more specific, we find that increased funding for child care subsidies and the … availability of full day kindergarten significantly increase the probability the current and former welfare recipients work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471186
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The Supply of Quality in Child Care Centers
Blau, David M. - 1999
We use data from a sample of day care centers to estimate the relationships between cost and the quality of the child care service provided, and between revenue and quality. We use a measure of child care quality derived from an instrument designed by developmental psychologists. This measure of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471564
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Child Care and Mothers' Employment Decisions
Anderson, Patricia M. - 1999
Rising female labor force participation and recent changes to the welfare system have increased the importance of child care for all women and, particularly, the less-skilled. This paper focuses on the child care decisions of women who differ by their skill level and the role that costs play in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471743
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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents
Ha Trong Nguyen; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022
Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012803590
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Who is doing the chores and childcare in dual-earner couples during the COVID-19 era of working from home?
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2022
In 2020, parents' work-from-home days increased fourfold following the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period compared to 2015-2019. At the same time, many daycares closed, and the majority of public schools offered virtual or hybrid classrooms, increasing the demand for household-provided...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013041405
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A Child Support Framework Accounting for Parenting Time and Half-Siblings
Kulldorff, Martin; Bhattacharya, Jay - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In the United States, child support guidelines sometimes generate surprising and presumably unintentional child support amounts, especially in situations with extended visitation, shared parenting, and half-siblings. These are consequences of the ad-hoc mathematical formulas that are in common...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660089
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The Role of Childcare Challenges in the US Jobs Market Recovery During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Furman, Jason; Kearney, Melissa Schettini; Powell, Wilson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We examine how much of the overall decline in employment between the beginning of 2020 and 2021 can be explained by excess job loss among parents of young children, and mothers specifically. Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we confirm that, in general, mothers with young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012585418
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Inequality in Early Care Experienced by U.S. Children
Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629469