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The timing of parental job displacement, child development and family adjustment

Carneiro, Pedro; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; … - 2022

This paper examines if the effect of parental labor market shocks on child development depends on the age of the child at the time of the shock. To address this question, we leverage rich Norwegian population-wide register data and exploit mass layoffs and establishment closures as a source of...

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The timing of parental job displacement, child development and family adjustment

Carneiro, Pedro; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; … - 2022

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Money for nothing? Universal child care and maternal employment

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2009

The strong correlation between child care and maternal employment rates has led previous research to conclude that affordable and readily available child care is a driving force both of cross-country differences in maternal employment and of its rapid growth over the last decades. We analyze the...

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Money for Nothing? Universal Child Care and Maternal Employment

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2009

The strong correlation between child care and maternal employment rates has led previous research to conclude that a ordable and readily available child care is a driving force both of cross-country di erences in maternal employment and of its rapid growth over the last decades. We analyze the...

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Money for Nothing? Universal Child Care and Maternal Employment

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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A flying start? : maternity leave benefits and long run outcomes of children

Carneiro, Pedro; Løken, Katrine V.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2011

We study the impact on children of increasing maternity leave benefits using a reform that increased paid and unpaid maternity leave in Norway in July 1977. Mothers giving birth before this date were eligible only for 12 weeks of unpaid leave, while those giving birth after were entitled to 4...

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A flying start? : long term consequences of maternal time investments in children during their first year of life

Carneiro, Pedro; Løken, Katrine V.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2010

We study the impact on children of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in the first year by exploiting a reform that increased paid and unpaid maternity leave in Norway. The reform increased maternal leave on average by 4 months and family income was unaffected. The...

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Parental investments and socio-economic gradients in learning across European countries

Carneiro, Pedro; Reis, Hugo; Toppeta, Alessandro - 2024

Generous maternity leave, affordable daycare, extensive social safety nets, excellent universal health care, and high-quality public schools, are all notable features of Nordic countries. There is a widespread belief that such strong public investments in children contribute to a levelled...

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The timing of parental job displacement, child development and family adjustment

Carneiro, Pedro; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; … - 2022

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Is universal child care leveling the playing field?

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2012

quantile treatment effects, showing how the child care expansion affected the earnings distribution of exposed children as … suggest that the effects of child care vary systematically across the earnings distribution, that the mean impact misses a lot … middle and upper-class children are unlikely to exceed the costs. To help understand the differential effects on earnings, we …

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