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With or Without You : Divorce Rates and Intra-Household Allocation of Time
Tabasso, Domenico - 2011
investments in terms of childcare and household activities are likely to increase the marital surplus, they are consequently …
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A Flying Start? Long Term Consequences of Maternal Time Investments in Children During Their First Year of Life
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2010
We study the impact on children of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in the first year by exploiting a reform that increased paid and unpaid maternity leave in Norway. The reform increased maternal leave on average by 4 months and family income was unaffected. The...
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Child Ability and Household Human Capital Investment Decisions in Burkina Faso
Akresh, Richard - 2010
Using data we collected in rural Burkina Faso, we examine how children's cognitive abilities influence resource constrained households' decisions to invest in their education. We use a direct measure of child ability for all primary school-aged children, regardless of current school enrollment....
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The Effect of Early Childhood Developmental Program Attendance on Future School Enrollment and Grade Progression in Rural North India
Hazarika, Gautam - 2010
This paper examines the effect of prior participation in early childhood developmental programs, considered endogenous, upon 7-19 years olds' school enrollment and grade progression in rural North India. It hopes both to extend to less developed countries recent influential research on the...
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How Responsive is Female Labour Supply to Child Care Costs : New Australian Estimates
Gong, Xiaodong - 2010
The degree of responsiveness of Australian women's labour supply to child care cost has been a matter of some debate. There is a view that the level of responsiveness is very low or negligible, running counter to international and anecdotal evidence. In this paper we review the Australian and...
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Human Capital Investments in Children : A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Parent-Child Shared Time in Selected Countries
Osterbacka, Eva - 2010
Parents invest in their children's human capital in several ways. We investigate the extent to which the levels and composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States. We test the hypothesis of parent-child time as a...
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Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Care and Education
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
This paper critically reviews what we know about the long-term effects of parental leave and early childhood education programs. We find only limited evidence that expansions of parental leave durations improved long-run educational or labor market outcomes of the children whose parents were...
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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
This paper examines the impact of the spatial accessibility of public human services agencies on the likelihood of receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location of virtually every human services agency in the U.S....
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The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit
Gonzalez, Libertad - 2011
I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July 1, 2007. The regression discontinuity-type design...
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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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