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's total hours worked fall by 9.8 percent, more than twice the decline among men. School closures for summer break …--and corresponding lapses in implicit childcare--provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment … aligns with cross-state differences in the timing of school closures, is concentrated among mothers with young school …
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The quality of the early environment children experience influences their human capital development. We investigate retention and compensation in the Early Care and Education workforce by merging datasets from three different government agencies in Texas. We employ non-structural methods to...
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the likelihood of the households having childcare expenses. Finally, consistent with the tradeoffs of policy design, we …
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We offer a new analysis of a large-scale trial of an early-childhood education program that targeted premature, low-birthweight children. This targeting heavily oversampled twins, whose outcomes differed significantly from singletons'. Singletons' gains in short-term cognition and age-18...
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College-educated mothers spend substantially more time in intensive childcare than less educated mothers despite their … childcare more. We find that among all mothers, spending time in childcare is associated with higher positive feelings compared … negative feelings during intensive childcare than other mothers. Moreover, college-educated mothers report substantially fewer …
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This paper examines the multigenerational impact of children and whether the public provision of formal childcare … earnings of mothers and employment of grandmothers. Studying a universal childcare program in Quebec, we find formal childcare … and the pre-policy supply of informal childcare by grandmothers …
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selection in the market. There is some limited evidence for moral hazard as nonprofit centers with very clean reception areas …
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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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Little is known about the long-term effects of participation in Head Start. This paper draws on unique non-experimental data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to provide new evidence on the effects of participation in Head Start on schooling attainment, earnings, and criminal behavior....
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This paper uses a rich employer-employee matched data set to investigate the existence and the extent of nonprofit and …-selection into the for-profit or nonprofit sectors, into full-time or part-time work, as well as unobserved worker heterogeneity … using a discrete factor model. We find differences between the regimes (full-time for-profit, full-time nonprofit, part …
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