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Roadblocks on the road to grandma's house : fertility consequences of delayed retirement

Battistin, Erich; De Nadai, Michele; Padula, Mario - 2015

We investigate the role of grandparental childcare for fertility decisions of their offspring. Exploiting pension … completed fertility for many cohorts in our data. Consistent with our interpretation, we show that results are limited to the … of changes of living arrangements and labor supply. Given the Italian lowest low fertility, we conclude that pension …

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Family economics writ large

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …

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Child care quality and child development

Araujo, María Caridad; Dormal, Marta; Schady, Norbert … - 2017

Development in early childhood predicts schooling and labor market outcomes in adulthood. In this paper we use a fixed effects identification strategy to assess how differences in the quality of child care affect the communication, fine motor, and problem solving skills of infants and toddlers....

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Women's rights and development

Fernández, Raquel - 2010

of development (i.e., capital accumulation and declining fertility) exacerbated the tension in men's conflicting … their daughters. The model predicts that declining fertility would hasten reform of women's property rights whereas legal …

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Child care arrangements and labor supply

Del Boca, Daniela - 2015

This paper discusses several approaches to examining the relationship between child care and mothers' labor supply. The focus is on child care for children aged 0-3, because this is a critical period for working mothers and their children and because most European and American households with...

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The psychometric properties of child care quality measures in Ecuadord : lessons for monitoring process variables at scale

López Bóo, Florencia; Dormal, Marta; Weber, Ann - 2016

This paper analyzes four instruments that are widely used to measure the quality of centers serving children ages 0 to 36 months - the CLASS, the ITERS-R, the CC-IT-HOME, and the MITRCC - and that were administered to a sample of 404 child care centers in Ecuador. We first assess the...

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Parental investment, school choice, and the persistent benefits of intervention in early childhood

Wang, Lei; Qian, Yiwei; Warrinnier, Nele; Attanasio, … - 2021

We present evidence from a randomized experiment testing the impacts of a six-month early childhood home-visiting program on child outcomes at school entry. Two and a half years after completion of the program, we find persistent effects on child working memory - a key skill of executive...

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Nudging parents to increase preschool attendance in Uruguay

Mateo Díaz, Mercedes; Becerra Luna, Laura; … - 2020

Uruguay has increased it preschool enrollment, reaching almost universal coverage among four- and five-year-olds. However, more than a third of children enrolled in preschool programs have insufficient attendance, with absenteeism higher in schools in lower socioeconomic areas and among younger...

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Child care markets, parental labor supply, and child development

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Ferreira, María M.; Flabbi, Luca; … - 2020

We develop and estimate a model of child care markets that endogenizes both demand and supply. On the demand side, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child-care decisions within a static, unitary household model. On the supply side, child care providers make entry, price,...

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Stylized facts about the quantity and quality of parental time investments on the skill formation of their children

Torres, Javier; Agüero, Jorge M. - 2017

This paper uses seven nationally representative time use surveys in Latin America to identify key stylized facts regarding the quantity and quality of parental time investment on the skill formation of their children. Traditional models of household behavior have failed to account for the...

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