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This paper estimates country-specific costs and benefits of scaling up key nutrition investments in Nigeria. Building on the methodology established in the global report scaling up nutrition: what will it cost? Authors first estimate the costs and benefits of a nationwide scale up of ten...
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welfare system, receiving childcare subsidies and enrolled in community-based ECE centers. Findings indicate that attending an …
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factors (poverty and costs of education), differences in expectations between boys and girls, and education of mothers. Supply …
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It has been suggested in the literature that taxes and subsidies play an important role in explaining the differences … explaining this variation. I analyse two types of policies: childcare subsidies and family cash benefits. I distinguish between … people with children and people without children. Childcare subsidies should increase working hours in the economy and these …
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The majority of children in the US and many other high-income nations are now cared for many hours per week by people who are neither their parents nor their school teachers. The role of such pre-school and out-of-school care is potentially two-fold: First, child care makes it feasible for both...
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In this paper, we examine the effect of refulations, resource and referral agencies, and subsidies on the child …
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In an influential article, Sherwin Rosen (1997) argues that Swedish subsidies of child care services lead to a … subsidies redistribute the costs of children between men and women, rich and poor, young and old. By exploring these and a …
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-care choices indicate significant effects of child-care subsidies, child-care prices, and wage rates on employment and child …
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parental and child well-being. Although the effects of child care subsidies on maternal employment and child development have … care subsidies are associated with worse maternal health and poorer interactions between parents and their children. In …
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programs. The current study examines the use and stability of child care subsidies among children from families involved in the … children and families involved in the child welfare system. Child care subsidies can help low-income families to access these … children involved in child welfare services have even less stability in child care subsidy use than other children from low …
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