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Child care assistance: Are subsidies or tax credits better?

Gong, Xiaodong; Breunig, Robert - 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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Child Care Subsidies, Wages, and Employment of Single Mothers

Tekin, Erdal - 2002

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment and child care payment decisions of single mothers in the early post-welfare reform environment, using data from the National Survey of America?s Families (NSAF). I develop and estimate a model that examines the effects of the price of...

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Child poverty and changes in child poverty in rich countries since 1990

Chen, Wen-Hao; Corak, Miles - 2005

This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg … the relative role of income transfers from the state in determining the magnitude and direction of change in child poverty … child poverty, changes in child poverty, and the impact of public policy in North America and Europe. …

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Child care subsidies and child development

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2008

Child care subsidies are an important part of federal and state efforts to move welfare recipients into employment. One of the criticisms of the current subsidy system, however, is that it overemphasizes work and does little to encourage parents to purchase high-quality child care. Consequently,...

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Child care subsidies, maternal well-being, and child-parent interactions: Evidence from three nationally representative datasets

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2012

A complete account of the U.S. child care subsidy system requires an understanding of its implications for both parental and child well-being. Although the effects of child care subsidies on maternal employment and child development have been recently studied, many other dimensions of family...

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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.; Tekin, Erdal - 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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Unintended consequences of welfare reform: the case of divorced parents

Francesconi, Marco; Rainer, Helmut; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - 2008

This paper formulates a model to examine the effects of changes in tax-benefit policy on the behavior of divorced parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support payment to transfer to custodians. These, in turn, decide...

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Care or cash? The effect of child care subsidies on student performance

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Loken, Katrine V.; … - 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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Kindergarten for all: Long run effects of a universal intervention

Drange, Nina; Havnes, Tarjei; Sandsør, Astrid M. J. - 2012

Theory and evidence point towards particularly positive effects of high-quality child care for disadvantaged children. At the same time, disadvantaged families often sort out of existing programs. To counter differences in learning outcomes between children from different socioeconomic...

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Early child care and child development: For whom it works and why

Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - 2012

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care...

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