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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
parental and child well-being. Although the effects of child care subsidies on maternal employment and child development have … care subsidies are associated with worse maternal health and poorer interactions between parents and their children. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282190
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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 … parents to purchase high-quality child care. Consequently, there are reasons to be concerned about the implications of child …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269366
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The impact of non-parental child care on child development: Evidence from the summer participation "dip"
Herbst, Chris M. - 2012
Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive development, few studies deal convincingly with the potential endogeneity of child care choices. Using a panel of infants and toddlers from the Birth cohort of the Early Childhood...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291341
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Nonprofit Sector and Part-Time Work: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Matched Data of Child Care Workers
Mocan, H. Naci; Tekin, Erdal - 2001
This paper uses a rich employer-employee matched data set to investigate the existence and the extent of nonprofit and part-time wage and compensation differentials in child care. The empirical strategy adjusts for workers? self-selection into the for-profit or nonprofit sectors, into full-time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262609
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274412
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How do parents allocate time? The effects of wages and income
Bloemen, Hans G.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008
simultaneously specifies three time-use choices - paid work, childcare, and housework - and wage and employment equations for each … of the standard hypothesis that performing housework does not bring utility. Parents' market time responds positively to … to an increase in their wife's wage. Non-labour income reduces paid work by parents and increases their non-market time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268863
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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 … estimate a model that examines the effects of the price of child care and the wage rate on employment decision as well as the … decision to use paid child care among single mothers. The model distinguishes between the full-time and part-time employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262726
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Immigrant labor, child care services, and the work fertility trade-off in the United States
Furtado, Delia; Hock, Heinrich - 2008
The negative correlation between female employment and fertility in industrialized nations has weakened since the 1960s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268661
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The cost of caring for young children
Rosenbaum, Dan T.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2005
This study examines the cost burden of child care, defined as day care expenses divided by after-tax income. Data are from the wave 10 core and child care topical modules to the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation. We estimate that the average child under six years of age lives in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276456
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282535