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Single Mothers Working at Night: Standard Work, Child Care Subsidies, and Implications for Welfare Reform
Tekin, Erdal - 2004
Using a data set from the post welfare reform environment (the 1999 National Survey of America?s Families), this paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261782
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Child Care Subsidy Receipt, Employment, and Child Care Choices of Single Mothers
Tekin, Erdal - 2004
mode decisions in the post-welfare reform environment, which places a high priority on parental choice with the quality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261875
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291363
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The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidies for Single Mothers
Blau, David M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2001
This paper provides an early analysis of child care subsidies under welfare reform. Previous studies of child care … subsidies use data from the pre-welfare-reform period, and their results may not apply to the very different post-reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271832
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The Consequences of ?In-Work? Benefit Reform in Britain : New Evidence from Panel Data
Francesconi, Marco; van der Klaauw, Wilbert - 2004
evaluate the effect of this reform on single mothers. We identify this impact by comparing changes in behavior of lone mothers … to changes for single women without children. Our results show that the financial incentives of the reform had powerful … effects on a wide range of lone mothers? decisions. The reform led to a substantial increase in employment rates of about 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262000
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The effect of benefits on single motherhood in Europe
González, Libertad - 2006
This paper uses data from the eight waves of the European Community Household Panel (1994-2001) to estimate the impact of welfare benefits on the incidence of single motherhood and headship among young women across European countries. The regressions include country fixed effects as well as time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267554
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The determinants of the prevalence of single mothers: a cross-country analysis
González, Libertad - 2005
This paper examines the effect of public assistance, labor market and marriage market conditions on the prevalence of single mother families across countries and over time. A multinomial logit derived from a random utility approach is estimated using individual-level data for 14 countries. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274011
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Peer effects in program participation
Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne - 2012
sharp increase in fathers taking paternity leave immediately after the reform, with take up rising from 3% to 35%. While … take up leave by the reform. Second, the most likely mechanism is information transmission about costs and benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284011
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Does Early Child Care Attendance Influence Children's Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Skill Development?
Kühnle, Daniel; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2017
While recent studies mostly find that attending child care earlier improves the skills of children from low socio-economic and non-native backgrounds in the short-run, it remains unclear whether such positive effects persist. We identify the short- and medium-run effects of early child care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653389
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Does a Flexible Parental Leave System Stimulate Maternal Employment?
Ziegler, Lennart; Bamieh, Omar - 2023
This study examines the effect of two recent parental leave reforms in Austria that allow parents to choose leave schemes with varying duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that the introduction of more flexible scheme choices led mothers to take, on average, 1-2 months less...
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