Showing 1 - 10 of 679
particular, subsidized mothers report lower levels of overall health and are more likely to show symptoms consistent with anxiety …, depression, and parenting stress. Such mothers also reveal more psychological and physical aggression toward their children and … policies aimed at economically disadvantaged mothers may ultimately undermine family well-being. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282190
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
We present and test a theory of prospective and retrospective pocketbook voting. Focusing on two large reforms in Sweden, we establish a causal chain from policies to sizeable individual gains and losses and then to voting. The Social Democrats proposed budget cuts affecting parents with young...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268951
In this paper we study the link between women's responsibility for children and their preferences. We use a large random sample of individuals living in rural India, incentive compatible measures of patience and risk aversion, and detailed survey data. We find more patient choices among women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330095
. To further explore this channel, we design a randomized survey experiment, in which 1500 Italian women aged 20 to 40 are … effects: high educated non-mothers are persuaded by the informational treatments to increase their intended use of formal … child care (and to pay more); whereas low educated non-mothers to reduce their intended labor supply. These findings are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329208
women with young children are willing to work, but that women with young children and mothers who are unhappy with the … spatial barriers discourage mothers from entering employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261970
The paper deals with female employment in developing countries. We set out a model to test our argument that, at the first stage of development, demographic and health programmes have proven to be more effective for women's position in the society than specific labour and income support...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268134
Exploiting a rich panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment generating …, seems to significantly deteriorate outcomes for boys whose mothers have a lower level of education. Finally, increasing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268188
This paper examines the effect of the timing of mothers' daily work schedules on the amount of maternal caregiving she … weekdays, and total caregiving time on weekends. Since the timing of employment is, in part, a choice made by mothers, which is …, spatial, and economic factors in mothers' time choices distinctly by nonstandard work status. We find that the effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268205
enter the market thus increasing the overall daycare provision in the municipalities participating in the experiment. In a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268257