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Exploring the Impacts of Public Childcare on Mothers and Children in Italy : Does Rationing Play a Role?

Brilli, Ylenia - 2011

This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … second grade of primary school in 2008-09 in conjunction with data on public childcare availability. Public childcare … account rationing in public childcare access and the functioning of the childcare market. Our estimates indicate that …

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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women : Experimental Evidence from Childcare

Galasso, Vincenzo - 2013

exposed to two informational treatments on the positive consequences of formal childcare on children future educational …

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The Gender Gap in Informal Child Care : Theory and Some Evidence from Italy

Barigozzi, Francesca - 2019

Our model studies couples. time allocation and career choices, which are a¤ected by a social norm on gender roles in the family. Parents can provide two types of informal child care: basic care (feeding, changing children, baby-sitting) and quality care (activities that stimulate children.s...

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Having it All, for All : Child-Care Subsidies and Income Distribution Reconciled

Barigozzi, Francesca - 2019

We study the design of child-care policies when redistribution matters. Traditional mothers provide some informal child …

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Early Child Care and Child Outcomes : The Role of Grandparents

Del Boca, Daniela - 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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Early Childcare, Child Cognitive Outcomes and Inequalities in the UK

Del Boca, Daniela - 2016

The objective of this research is to explore the impact of early childcare on child cognitive outcomes. We utilize the … childcare as well as several child outcomes. In our empirical analysis, we estimate the association between formal childcare and … child cognitive outcomes, allowing the effect of formal childcare to be different for children from different family …

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Women's Career Choices, Social Norms and Child Care Policies

Barigozzi, Francesca - 2017

Our model explains the observed gender-specific patterns of career and child care choices through endogenous social norms. We study how these norms interact with the gender wage gap. We show that via the social norm a couple's child care and career choices impose an externality on other couples,...

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An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples : Are Italian Men Irresponsive?

Bloemen, Hans; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena - 2021

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … is significantly negative for housework of women. Childcare time of fathers increases with own wage and with the presence …

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