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Granular Income Inequality and Mobility using IDDA : Exploring Patterns across Race and Ethnicity

Kondo, Illenin O.; Rinz, Kevin; Gubbay, Natalie; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We explore the evolution of income inequality and mobility in the U.S. for a large number of subnational groups defined by race and ethnicity, using granular statistics describing income distributions, income mobility, and conditional income growth derived from the universe of tax filers and W-2...

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Child Care and Mothers' Employment Decisions

Anderson, Patricia M. - 1999

by their skill level and the role that costs play in their work decision. After reviewing government child-care programs …

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Evidence From Maternity Leave Expansions of the Impact of Maternal Care on Early Child Development

Baker, Michael - 2008

We study the impact of maternal care on early child development using an expansion in Canadian maternity leave entitlements. Following the leave expansion, mothers who took leave spent between 48 and 58 percent more time not working in the first year of their children's lives. We find that this...

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Public Preschool and Maternal Labor Supply : Evidence from the Introduction of Kindergartens into American Public Schools

Cascio, Elizabeth - 2006

Beginning in the mid-1960s, many state governments, particularly in the South and West, began to subsidize kindergartens for the first time. These initiatives generated wide variation across states over time in the supply of seats for five year olds in public schools. This paper uses the...

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Universal Childcare, Maternal Labor Supply, and Family Well-Being

Baker, Michael - 2005

increased public financing for childcare. The optimality of public financing depends on a host of factors, such as the "crowd …-out" of existing childcare arrangements, the impact on female labor supply, and the effects on child well-being. The … introduction of universal, highly-subsidized childcare in Quebec in the late 1990s provides an opportunity to address these issues …

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Child Care Subsidy Receipt, Employment, and Child Care Choices of Single Mothers

Tekin, Erdal - 2004

This paper examines the impact of actual subsidy receipt of single mothers on their joint employment and child care mode decisions in the post-welfare reform environment, which places a high priority on parental choice with the quality and type of care chosen. Results indicate that single...

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Single Mothers Working at Night : Standard Work, Child Care Subsidies, and Implications for Welfare Reform

Tekin, Erdal - 2004

Using a data set from the post welfare reform environment (the 1999 National Survey of America's Families), this paper investigates the impact of child care subsidies on the standard work (i.e., work performed during the traditional work hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. through Monday and Friday)...

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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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The Distributional Effects of the Tax Treatment of Child Care Expenses

Gentry, William M. - 1995

Tax relief for child care expenses, encompassing the Child Care Tax Credit and Dependent Care Assistance Plans, is the largest federal government program in the United States aimed at helping families with child care. We examine the distributional effects of these policies among families with...

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Maternal Labor Supply and Children's Cognitive Development

Blau, Francine D. - 1990

This paper analyzes the relationship between maternal labor supply and children's cognitive development, using a sample of three- and four-year-old children of female respondents from the 1986 National Longitudinal Surveys Youth Cohort (NLSY). Respondents in the NLSY were aged 21 to 29 in 1986; thus...

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