receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location … care subsidies on children's weight outcomes. Our instrumental variables estimates suggest that subsidized child care leads … in the distance to a public human services agency reduces the likelihood that a family receives a child care subsidy …

these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … this, we find significant positive effect of the subsidies on children's academic performance in junior high school …, suggesting the positive shock to disposable income provided by the subsidies may be helping to improve children's scholastic …

Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive … disadvantaged children do not benefit from exposure to non-parental child care settings. … development, few studies deal convincingly with the potential endogeneity of child care choices. Using a panel of infants and …

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … German setting where high quality center-based care is severely rationed and use within state differences in child care … supply as exogenous variation in child care attendance. Data from the German Socio-Economic Panel provides comprehensive …

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 use a simulation exercise to show the impact of cost and availability … on child care choices. In part two, we present the results of an explorative econometric analysis using a matched data …

(1982). The results show that more than 50 percent of children aged 0-3 are queuing for child care slots, whereas only 10 …The extension of subsidized child care is currently on top of the political agenda in Germany. In this paper the excess … demand for subsidized child care slots is estimated using a partial observability model in the style of Abowd and Farber …

part-time wage and compensation differentials in child care. The empirical strategy adjusts for workers? self … sectors. The results indicate that part-time jobs are ?good? jobs in center-based child care, and there exist nonprofit wage …

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 …

in rigidities and imperfections in the labor market and characteristics of the publicly-funded child care system. These … rigidities tend to simultaneously increase the costs of having children and to discourage the labor market participation of … results show that the availability of child care and part time work increase both the probability of working and having a …

In this paper, I suggest an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices …, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as … Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a …