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Child care arrangements and labor supply
Del Boca, Daniela - 2015
concerning availability of, government spending on, and quantity and quality standards for child care in different countries … reviews and compares empirical results regarding the impact of child care costs, availability and quality. Finally, the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290065
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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's scholastic achievements. We use a newly available dataset containing individual standardized test scores of pupils attending second grade of primary school in 2008-09 in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120847
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Multiple births, birth quality and maternal labor supply: Analysis of IVF reform in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2019
In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than multiple embryo transfers, the single embryo transfer (SET)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145514
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Multiple births, birth quality and maternal labor supply : analysis of IVF reform in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2019
In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than multiple embryo transfers, the single embryo transfer (SET)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021924
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Multiple Births, Birth Quality and Maternal Labor Supply : Analysis of Ivf Reform in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2019
In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than multiple embryo transfers, the single embryo transfer (SET)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864883
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Health and labor market impacts of twin birth: evidence from a Swedish IVF policy mandate
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2022
IVF allows women to delay birth and pursue careers, but IVF massively increases the risk of twin birth. There is limited evidence of how having twins influences women's post-birth careers. We investigate this, leveraging a single embryo transfer (SET) mandate implemented in Sweden in 2003,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804260
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Multiple births, birth quality and maternal labor supply : analysis of IVF reform in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2019
In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003. Following publication of medical evidence showing that pregnancy success rates could be maintained using single rather than multiple embryo transfers, the single embryo transfer (SET)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012054653
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Health and labor market impacts of twin birth : evidence from a Swedish IVF policy
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2023
In vitro fertilization (IVF) has allowed women to delay birth and pursue a career, but it massively increasesthe risk of twin birth. We investigate the extent to which having twins hampers women's careers after birth. To do this, we leverage a single embryo transfer (SET) mandate for IVF...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014342131
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Does universalization of healthwork? : evidence from health systems restructuring and expansion in Brazil
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2019
We investigate universalization of access to health in Brazil. We find large reductions in maternal, foetal, neonatal … and post-neonatal mortality, a reduction in fertility and, possibly on account of selection, no change in the quality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974631
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Does universalization of health work? evidence from health systems restructuring and maternal and child health in Brazil
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Rocha, Rudi; Soares, Rodigo R. - 2016
We investigate restructuring of the health system in Brazil motivated to operationalize universal health coverage … suggest that the survival gains were supply-driven. We find no improvement in the quality of births, which may be explained by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571857