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Time for children: A study of parent's time allocation
Hallberg, Daniel; Klevmarken, Anders - In: Journal of Population Economics 16 (2003) 2, pp. 205-226
The trade-off between parents' time with their own kids and market work, and its dependence on out-of-home day care is analyzed in a simultaneous equation framework. Economic incentives primarily work through decisions about market work, while the direct effects on time with children are weak....
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The effect of child care and part time opportunities on participation and fertility decisions in Italy
Boca, Daniela Del - In: Journal of Population Economics 15 (2002) 3, pp. 549-573
of married women lead to increases in their labor supply and reductions in fertility. In Italy, low labor market … market participation of married women. We analyze a model of labor supply and fertility, using panel data. The empirical …
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Child care, women's employment, and child outcomes
Waldfogel, Jane - In: Journal of Population Economics 15 (2002) 3, pp. 527-548
This paper reviews the evidence on the impact of child care and maternal employment in the pre-school years on child outcomes. This topic has long been of interest to economists, developmental psychologists, and scholars from other disciplines, and has been the focus of increased attention in...
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Uncertainty about children's survival and fertility: A test using indian microdata
Atella, Vincenzo; Rosati, Furio Camillo - In: Journal of Population Economics 13 (2000) 2, pp. 263-278
parental choices. This shows that realized or expected children's death is not the only link between fertility decision and …
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Child care workers' wages: New evidence on returns to education, experience, job tenure and auspice
Cleveland, Gordon H.; Hyatt, Douglas E. - In: Journal of Population Economics 15 (2002) 3, pp. 575-597
Child care workers receive low hourly pay, modest returns to education, experience and job tenure, and have high rates of turnover. These stylized facts have caused analysts to characterize child care workers as secondary labour market participants. We use Canadian data to challenge this...
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Wages, taxes and publicly provided day care
Ohlsson, Henry; Lundholm, Michael - In: Journal of Population Economics 11 (1998) 2, pp. 185-204
Public employment growth has been parallelled by increased female labour force participation, while real wages for typical female public sector occupations have not increased. In a theoretical model we, first, show that there is a tradeoff between day care provision and gross wages for...
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Employment and child-care choices of single-parent families in Canada and the United States
Robins, Philip K.; Michalopoulos, Charles - In: Journal of Population Economics 15 (2002) 3, pp. 465-493
This paper examines employment and child-care choices of single-parent families with young children in the United States and Canada, using a pooled data set based on recent national surveys in each country. We find that the employment and child-care choices of Canadian families are similar to...
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Fertility and the Easterlin hypothesis: An assessment of the literature
Macunovich, Diane J. - In: Journal of Population Economics 11 (1998) 1, pp. 53-111
Focusing just on the fertility aspects of the Easterlin hypothesis, this paper offers a critical assessment - rather … than just a selective citation - of the extensive fertility literature generated by Easterlin, and a complete inventory of … fertility, but is less clear regarding the source(s) of differences in material aspirations, and suggests that the observed …
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The effects of gender control on fertility and children`s consumption
Davies, James B.; Zhang, Junsen - In: Journal of Population Economics 10 (1997) 1, pp. 67-85
Effects of sex preference on investments in children`s human capital, bequests and fertility are studied, with and …
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A note on the changing relationship between fertility and female employment rates in developed countries
Mira, Pedro; Ahn, Namkee - In: Journal of Population Economics 15 (2002) 4, pp. 667-682
In this paper we look at a panel of OECD aggregate fertility and labor market data between 1970 and 1995 and we report … some striking recent developments. Total Fertility Rates (TFR) were falling and Female Participation Rates (FPR) were … framework of standard neoclassical models of fertility and labor supply adapted to macro data, as in Butz and Ward (1979). …
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