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Macroeconomy and Agriculture in Sudan : Analysis of Trade Policies, External Shocks, and Economic Bans in a Computable General Equilibrium Approach
Siddig, Khalid - 2011
Similar to many sub-Saharan African countries, Sudan has inherited a dual economy in the immediate post-independence era where a large agriculture-based rural traditional sector coexisted with a small non-agricultural modern sector. This functional dualism remained until the first oil shipment...
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The Effects of a Universal Child Benefit
Gonzalez, Libertad - 2011
I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July 1, 2007. The regression discontinuity-type design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120131
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Exploring the Impacts of Public Childcare on Mothers and Children in Italy : Does Rationing Play a Role?
Brilli, Ylenia - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … second grade of primary school in 2008-09 in conjunction with data on public childcare availability. Public childcare … account rationing in public childcare access and the functioning of the childcare market. Our estimates indicate that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120847
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Evaluating Early Childhood Policies : An Estimable Model of Family Child Investments
Azuero, Rodrigo - 2020
in children such as time, material investments, and childcare services. I estimate the model in a novel dataset from …, childcare subsidies, and subsidies to child-specific goods. In Chile, as is common in various countries implementing cash …-specific goods are much more effective than childcare subsidies or cash transfers. Childcare subsidies increase female labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840585
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The effects of a universal child benefit
González, Libertad - 2011
I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July 1, 2007. The regression discontinuity-type design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009422471
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Initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment and hours of self- employed coupled and single workers by gender and parental status
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2020
This study examines the initial impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on the employment and hours of unincorporated self-employed workers using data from the Current Population Survey. Although the shutdowns decreased employment and hours for all groups, differential effects by gender, couple status, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244813
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Childcare subsidy policy : what it can and cannot accomplish : what are the implications of childcare subsidies for care quality, family well-being, and child development?
Tekin, Erdal - 2014
Most public expenditure on childcare in the US is made through a federal program, the Child Care and Development Fund … employment and reduce welfare dependence among low-income families. Childcare subsidies have been effective in enabling parents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417121
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Childcare choices and child development : generous parental leave and affordable, high-quality childcare can foster childrens's abilities
Del Boca, Daniela - 2015
childcare. This trend has raised concerns, and an intense debate in several countries has focused on the effectiveness of … childcare policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430563
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Secondary childcare in the ATUS : what does it measure?
Stewart, Jay Charles; Allard, Mary Dorinda - 2015
quality of these data. This paper investigates whether the secondary childcare questions in the ATUS are measuring the stated … construct alternative estimates that exclude time spent in secondary childcare that is inconsistent with other data collected … during the interview and find that the ATUS measure overestimates secondary childcare by at most 5 percent or about 16 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346580
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The unintended consequences of childcare regulation : evidence from a regression discontinuity design
Rojas, Eugenio; Sánchez, Rafael; Villena, Mauricio G. - In: Journal of applied economics 19 (2016) 1, pp. 1-39
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