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Taxing childcare: Effects on family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2012
light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare … and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that public daycare and informal … childcare are complements. Female labor force participation declines and the response is strongest for single parents and low …
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Work and wage dynamics around childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - 2011
This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...
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The effects of California's paid family leave program on mothers' leave-taking and subsequent labor market outcomes
Rossin-Slater, Maya; Ruhm, Christopher J.; Waldfogel, Jane - 2011
This analysis uses March Current Population Survey data from 1999-2010 and a differences-in-differences approach to examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following childbirth, as well as subsequent labor market outcomes. We...
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Cheaper child care, more children
Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2009
We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous variation in child care costs caused by a Swedish child care...
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The multitasking of household production
Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie; Foster, Gigi - 2010
The standard household production model does not incorporate multitasking, although time-diary data reveal that individuals regularly multitask. We formulate a model where time spent in child care can be sole-tasked or multitasked with other household production activities. This model implies...
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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
care subsidies are associated with worse maternal health and poorer interactions between parents and their children. In …
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Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? Evidence from a structural model
Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009
In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer...
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Mothers' labour market participation: Do grandparents make it easier?
Arpino, Bruno; Pronzato, Chiara D.; Tavares, Lara P. - 2012
Childcare arrangements are key in women's ability to juggle motherhood and working outside the home. As such, the study of the access to childcare and its use is of great policy relevance. We focus on a particular kind of informal childcare, the one provided by grandparents. Empirically,...
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Child Care Choices by Italian Households
Del Boca, Daniela; Locatelli, Marilena; Vuri, Daniela - 2004
In spite of relatively generous public subsidies and a reputation for high quality, only a very limited proportion of Italian families use public child care. In this paper we explore the significance of various factors on the choices made between different types of child care. In part one, we...
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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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