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The Dynastic Benefits of Early Childhood Education : Participant Benefits and Family Spillovers
Bennhoff, Frederik; García, Jorge Luis; Ermini Leaf, Duncan - 2023
We demonstrate the social efficiency of investing in high-quality early childhood education using newly collected data from the HighScope Perry Preschool Project. The data analyzed are the longest follow-up of any randomized early childhood education program. Annual observations of participant...
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Minimum Wage, Worker Quality, and Consumer Well-Being : Evidence from the Child Care Market
Brown, Jessica H.; Herbst, Chris M. - 2023
This paper combines multiple data sources to study the impact of the minimum wage on service quality and consumer well-being within the child care market. Although child care firms increase teacher pay in response to minimum wage reforms, we find no impact on employment levels. Instead,...
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Will Childcare Subsidies Increase the Labour Supply of Mothers in Ireland?
Doorley, Karina; Tuda, Dora; Duggan, Luke - 2023
The cost of childcare has a significant impact on the decision of parents particularly mothers to work. Prior to the … introduction of subsidies for formal childcare in Ireland in 2019 through the National Childcare Scheme (NCS), the cost of full …-time centre-based childcare was among the most expensive in the OECD. Doorley et al. (2021) show that the introduction of the …
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Discrimination on the Child Care Market : A Nationwide Field Experiment
Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2023
We provide the first causal evidence of discrimination against migrants seeking child care. We send emails from fictitious parents to 18, 000 early child care centers across Germany, asking if there is a slot available and how to apply. Randomly varying names to signal migration background, we...
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Understanding the Effects of Siblings on Child Mortality : Evidence from India
Makepeace, Gerry - 2011
Given the intrinsically sequential nature of child birth, timing of a child's birth has consequences not only for itself, but also for its older and younger siblings. The paper argues that prior and posterior spacing between consecutive siblings are thus important measures of intensity of...
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Childcare and Maternal Employment : Evidence from Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2019
Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing … regression discontinuity estimator based on children's birth months, we find a sizable effect of childcare attendance on women …'s labor market outcomes, including their total annual wages, household income, and poverty status. The effects of childcare …
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Parental Inputs and Socio-Economic Gaps in Early Child Development
Macmillan, Lindsey - 2019
By the time children start school, socio-economic gaps are evident in child skills. We document a causal effect of a reform to mothers' education on her child's skills and use mediation analysis to explore the role of parental inputs as mechanisms. The reform shifted mothers' education from no,...
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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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Cost-Effective Public Daycare in a Low-Income Economy Benefits Children and Mothers
Hojman, Andres - 2019
This paper evaluates the impacts of a public program that introduced access to part-time childcare centers for children …
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How Do Parents Respond to Regulation of Sugary Drinks in Child Care? Evidence from California
Hu, Jiafei - 2019
To reduce sugar intake in children, California regulates the provision of sugar-sweetened beverages and juice by child care facilities. The regulation may reduce children's consumption of sugary beverages in the short run and weaken their preferences for sugary drinks in the long run. Whether...
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