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The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity

Herbst, Chris M. - 2011

receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … families must travel from home in order to reach the nearest office that administers the subsidy application process. Using … in the distance to a public human services agency reduces the likelihood that a family receives a child care subsidy …

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How to Deal with Covert Child Labour, and Give Children an Effective Education, in a Poor Developing Country

Cigno, Alessandro - 2011

As credit and insurance markets are imperfect, and given that intra-family transfers, and the way a child uses her time outside school hours, are private information, the second-best policy makes school enrollment compulsory, forces overt child labour below its efficient level (if positive), and...

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Higher Education in Turkey : Subsidizing the Rich or the Poor?

Caner, Asena - 2012

We investigate how the benefits of publicly financed higher education in Turkey are distributed among students with different socioeconomic backgrounds. We use a unique dataset from a nationally representative sample of university entrance exam takers together with data on government subsidies...

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Getting Back into the Labor Market : The Effects of Start-Up Subsidies for Unemployed Females

Caliendo, Marco - 2012

A shortage of skilled labor and low female labor market participation are problems many developed countries have to face. Besides activating inactive women, one possible solution is to support the re-integration of unemployed women. Due to female-specific labor market constraints (preferences...

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Do Higher Childcare Subsidies Improve Parental Well-Being? Evidence from Québec's Family Policies

Brodeur, Abel - 2012

In this paper, we investigate the effect of a change in childcare subsidies on parental subjective well-being. Starting in 1997, the Canadian province of Québec implemented a generous program providing $5-a-day childcare to children under the age of 5. By 2007, the percentage of children...

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Fostering the Emancipation of Young People : Evidence from a Spanish Rental Subsidy

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2012

this paper, we study the effect of a monthly cash subsidy on young adults' emancipation, family formation, and fertility …. The subsidy, introduced in Spain in 2008, is conditional on young adults renting accommodation, and it amounts to almost … 20 percent of the average youngsters' wage. Our identification strategy exploits the subsidy eligibility age threshold to …

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Child Care Assistance : Are Subsidies or Tax Credits Better?

Gong, Xiaodong - 2012

We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government expenditure. Using Australian data, we estimate a joint, discrete structural model of labor supply and...

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Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance

Black, Sandra E. - 2012

Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on...

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Place Based Policies with Unemployment

Kline, Patrick - 2013

in many place based policies. The optimal hiring subsidy is city specific in the sense that it depends upon the local …

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Beyond Additionality : Are Innovation Subsidies Counterproductive?

Catozzella, Alessandra - 2014

simultaneity between subsidy allocation and the qualitative composition of the innovative output, as well as the endogeneity of … the innovation subsidy; far from 'doing better' as a result of government intervention, supported firms appear to exhaust …

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