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Do Parents Work More When Children Start School? Evidence from the Netherlands
Swart, Lisette - 2019
Netherlands, where children start school (kindergarten) for approximately 20 hours a week in the month that they turn 4. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870273
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The Effectiveness of Fiscal Stimuli for Working Parents
de Boer, Henk-Wim - 2015
use. We use a large and rich administrative data set for the Netherlands. Large-scale reforms in childcare subsidies and …. Prominent examples are childcare subsidies and in-work benefits. However, which policy works best for employment is largely … unknown. We study the effectiveness of different fiscal stimuli in an empirical model of household labor supply and childcare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016195
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Intra-Household Work Timing : The Effect on Joint Activities and the Demand for Child Care
Klaveren, Chris van - 2011
This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126918
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Commuting Time and Household Responsibilities : Evidence Using Propensity Score Matching
Giménez, José Ignacio - 2015
, we analyze the relationship between commuting time, and the time devoted to home production and childcare. To deal with … effect for men, while childcare time has an effect on women's commuting time behavior only. Our results explain why prior …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029122
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132570
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135181
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135821
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137511
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139056
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139716