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Child Care and the Welfare to Work Transition

Lemke, Robert J. - 2000

education affect the probability that current and former welfare recipients will work. Regarding the child care market, we find … education serve to increase employment. To be more specific, we find that increased funding for child care subsidies and the … availability of full day kindergarten significantly increase the probability the current and former welfare recipients work …

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Parental Education and Parental Time With Children

Guryan, Jonathan - 2008

is a strong positive relationship between parental education, or earnings, and time spent with children. We then show … difference. We speculate that one reason for this positive education gradient relates to the investment aspect of time spent with …

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The Impact of Regulations on the Supply and Quality of Care in Child Care Markets

Hotz, V. Joseph - 2005

We examine the impact of state child care regulations on the supply and quality of care in child care markets. We exploit panel data on both individual establishments and local markets to control for state, time, and, where possible, establishment-specific fixed effects to mitigate the potential...

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Games Parents and Adolescents Play : Risky Behaviors, Parental Reputation, and Strategic Transfers

Hao, Lingxin - 2005

This paper examines reputation formation in intra-familial interactions. We consider parental reputation in a repeated two-stage game in which adolescents decide whether to give a teen birth or drop out of high school, and given adolescent decisions, the parent decides whether to house and...

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What Happens When Child Care Inspections and Complaints Are Made Available on the Internet?

Witte, Ann Dryden - 2004

We provide substantial evidence that placing child care provider inspection and complaint reports on the Internet changed the behavior of child care inspectors and improved the quality of child care received by low-income children. We believe that these results were forthcoming in part because:...

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Impacts of Eligibility Expansions and Provider Reimbursement Rate Increases on Child Care Subsidy Take-Up Rates, Welfare Use and Work

Witte, Ann Dryden - 2003

assistance and enrolled in some approved activity (e.g., education or training) other than work. We were not able to assess the …

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The Policy Context and Infant and Toddler Care in the Welfare Reform Era

Witte, Ann - 2002

We provide descriptive evidence from Miami-Dade County (MDC), FL and from five representative areas in Massachusetts (MA) that government policies governing welfare reform, the child-care subsidy system and minimum-standards regulation have had considerable impact on the availability, price, and...

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Accidents Will Happen? Unintentional Injury, Maternal Employment, and Child Care Policy

Currie, Janet - 2001

In western countries, accidents are the leading cause of death and injury among children, far surpassing diseases as a health threat. We examine the effect of maternal employment and child care policy on rates of accidental injury using both micro data from the National Longitudinal Survey of...

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Does Money Matter? Regression-Discontinuity Estimates from Education Finance Reform in Massachusetts

Guryan, Jonathan - 2001

The paper studies a typical state-level education finance equalization scheme, and considers two questions. First, what … fraction of state education aid is spent on schools? And second, does increased educational funding for historically low … that 50 to 75 cents of each dollar of education aid were spent on schools. Estimates also suggest that increased spending …

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