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Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - In: IZA World of Labor (2022)

Many countries experience gender differences, of various magnitudes, in the time devoted to paid work (e.g. market work time) and unpaid work (e.g. housework and childcare). Since household responsibilities influence the participation of women, especially mothers, in the labor market, the...

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Why Are Fertility and Women?s Employment Rates So Low in Italy? : Lessons from France and the U.K.

Del Boca, Daniela; Pasqua, Silvia; Pronzato, Chiara - 2004

?s participation and reduce the cost of working. However the persistence of a negative relationship between participation and fertility … in these countries implies that it is important to take fertility into account. We analyze a model of labor supply and … fertility, using data from the ECHP (European Community Household Panel) for the period 1994-2000, merged with regional data …

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Market work and motherhood decisions in contexts

Del Boca, Daniela; Pasqua, Silvia; Pronzato, Chiara - 2008

differences in participation and fertility rates for women from different European countries can be attributed to the … educational levels, childcare and optional parental leaves have a larger impact on the fertility and participation decisions of …

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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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Early Childcare, Child Cognitive Outcomes and Inequalities in the UK

Del Boca, Daniela; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara D. - 2016

The objective of this research is to explore the impact of early childcare on child cognitive outcomes. We utilize the Millennium Cohort Survey (MCS) for the United Kingdom, which provides very detailed information about several modalities of childcare as well as several child outcomes. In our...

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Self investments of adolescents and their cognitive development

Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2012

While a large literature has focused on the impact of parental investments on child cognitive development, very little is known about the role of child's own investments. Information on how children invest their time separately from parents is probably little informative for babies and toddlers,...

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Evaluation of the Reggio Approach to Early Education

Biroli, Pietro; Del Boca, Daniela; Heckman, James J.; … - 2017

We evaluate the Reggio Approach using non-experimental data on individuals from the cities of Reggio Emilia, Parma and Padova belonging to one of five age cohorts: ages 50, 40, 30, 18, and 6 as of 2012. The treated were exposed to municipally offered infant-toddler (ages 0 3) and preschool (ages...

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Actors in the Child Development Process

Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher; Verriest, Ewout; … - 2019

allowing parents to offer incentives to the child to increase her study time, at some monitoring cost. We show that this …

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Early Education and Gender Differences

Del Boca, Daniela; Martino, Enrica Maria; Meroni, Elena … - 2019

A rich strand of the economic literature has been studying the impact of different forms of early childcare on children cognitive and non-cognitive development in the short and medium run, and on a number of educational, labor market, and life outcomes in the long run. These studies agree in...

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Household membership decisions of adult children

Chiuri, Maria Concetta; Del Boca, Daniela - 2008

While several social, economic and financial indicators point to a growing convergence among European countries, striking differences still emerge in the timing of leaving home for adult children. In Southern countries (as Spain, Italy or Portugal) in 2001 more than 70 percent of young adults...

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