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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 and Mothers' Employment Decisions

Anderson, Patricia M. - 1999

Rising female labor force participation and recent changes to the welfare system have increased the importance of child care for all women and, particularly, the less-skilled. This paper focuses on the child care decisions of women who differ by their skill level and the role that costs play in...

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The Role of Childcare Challenges in the US Jobs Market Recovery During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Furman, Jason; Kearney, Melissa Schettini; Powell, Wilson - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We examine how much of the overall decline in employment between the beginning of 2020 and 2021 can be explained by excess job loss among parents of young children, and mothers specifically. Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we confirm that, in general, mothers with young...

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Moms' Time - Married or Not

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Using time-diary data from the U.S. and six wealthy European countries, I demonstrate that non-partnered mothers spend slightly less time performing childcare, but much less time in other household activities than partnered mothers. Unpartnered mothers' total work time--paid work and household...

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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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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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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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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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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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The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies

Karademir, Sencer; Laliberté, Jean-William P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper examines the multigenerational impact of children and whether the public provision of formal childcare lessens the earnings and employment impacts of children. We find that the arrival of a firstborn reduces employment and earnings of mothers and employment of grandmothers. Studying a...

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