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Blau, David M. - 2000

Child care and early education subsidies are an important part of government efforts to increase economic independence … increasing economic independence and improving child outcomes. All child care and early education subsidies affect both work …

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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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Child Care Subsidies and Child Development

Herbst, Chris M. - 2008

year before kindergarten lowers reading and math test scores and increases a variety of behavior problems at kindergarten … entry. Some of these negative effects persist to the end of kindergarten. A tentative explanation for the poorer outcomes is …

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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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The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidies for Single Mothers

Blau, David - 2003

This paper provides an analysis of child care subsidies under welfare reform. Previous studies of child care subsidies use data from the pre-welfare-reform period, and their results may not apply to the very different post-reform environment. We use data from the 1999 National Survey of...

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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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The Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply : Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit

Baker, Michael; Messacar, Derek; Stabile, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We investigate whether child tax benefits reduce child poverty and labor force participation among single mothers within the context of the 2015 expansion of the Canadian Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) and the 2016 introduction of the Canada Child Benefit (CCB). We compare single mothers to...

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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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Bargaining over Babies : Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications

Doepke, Matthias - 2016

It takes a woman and a man to make a baby. This fact suggests that for a birth to take place, the parents should first agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are likely to arrive only if both parents desire one, and...

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