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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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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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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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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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question. Our paper provides new comprehensive evidence on how a home care subsidy jointly affects maternal labour market … subsidy of initially 100 Euros per month for families who do not use subsidised childcare.Exploiting a date-of-birth cut … development at age six. Our findings imply that the subsidy accrued almost completely as windfall gains to families who would not …
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optimal uniform subsidy is lower than the "Pigouvian" level. Conversely, under a non-linear policy the first-best "Pigouvian …" rule for the (marginal) subsidy on informal care is reestablished. While the share of high career mothers continues to be …
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What would be the aggregate effects of adopting a more generous and universal childcare subsidy program in the U.S.? We …
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subsidy scheme improved childcare affordability. In this paper, we investigate the effects of the scheme on the labour supply … that recent (2023) reforms of the NCS, which increase the generosity and the scope of the subsidy, will increase mothers …
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A complete account of the U.S. child care subsidy system requires an understanding of its implications for both … fill this gap by examining the impact of child care subsidy receipt on maternal health and the quality of child … of family well-being. In addition, we attempt to handle the possibility of non-random selection into subsidy receipt by …
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of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it overemphasizes work and does little to encourage … care subsidies for child development. In this paper, we provide a systematic assessment of the impact of subsidy receipt on … relationship between child care subsidies and child development. In particular, our results suggest that subsidy receipt in the …
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