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Reproductive technology and the child care sector : how access to oral contraception and abortion shaped workforce composition and quality

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2025

The composition and quality of the child care workforce may be uniquely sensitive to changes in the complementarities between home production and market work. This paper examines whether the expansion of oral contraceptives and abortion access throughout the 1960's and 1970's influenced the...

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The impact of quality rating and improvement systems on families' child care choices and the supply of child care labor

Herbst, Chris M. - 2016

Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) are increasingly deployed by states to monitor and improve the quality of non-parental child care settings. By making information on program quality accessible to the public, QRIS attempts to alter parental preferences for quality-related attributes...

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The Impact of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems on Families' Child Care Choices and the Supply of Child Care Labor

Herbst, Chris M. - 2016

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Offline effects of online connecting : the impact of broadband diffusion on teen fertility decisions

Guldi, Melanie; Herbst, Chris M. - 2015

teens make. Specifically, we look at the relationship between increased broadband access and teen fertility. We hypothesize … that increasing access to high-speed internet can influence fertility decisions by changing the size of the market as well … broadband internet on teen fertility as well as the mechanisms underlying this effect. Our results suggest that increased …

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Child Care Over the Business Cycle

Brown, Jessica H.; Herbst, Chris M. - 2021

We estimate the impact of macroeconomic conditions on the child care market. We find that the industry is substantially more exposed to the business cycle than other low-wage industries and responds more strongly to negative shocks than positive ones. Indeed, child care employment requires more...

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What Do Parents Value in a Child Care Provider? Evidence from Yelp Consumer Reviews

Herbst, Chris M. - 2018

This paper exploits novel data and empirical methods to examine parental preferences for child care. Specifically, we analyze consumer reviews of child care businesses posted on the website Yelp.com. A key advantage of Yelp is that it contains a large volume of unstructured information about a...

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The Geographic Accessibility of Child Care Subsidies and Evidence on the Impact of Subsidy Receipt on Childhood Obesity

Herbst, Chris M. - 2011

This paper examines the impact of the spatial accessibility of public human services agencies on the likelihood of receiving a child care subsidy among disadvantaged mothers with young children. In particular, we collect data on the location of virtually every human services agency in the U.S....

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The Impact of Non-Parental Child Care on Child Development : Evidence from the Summer Participation 'Dip'

Herbst, Chris M. - 2013

Although a large literature examines the effect of non-parental child care on preschool-aged children's cognitive development, few studies deal convincingly with the potential endogeneity of child care choices. Using a panel of infants and toddlers from the Birth cohort of the Early Childhood...

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Child Care Subsidies and Childhood Obesity

Herbst, Chris M. - 2014

Child care subsidies play a critical role in facilitating the transition of disadvantaged mothers from welfare to work. However, little is known about the influence of these policies on children's health and well-being. In this paper, we study the impact of subsidy receipt on low-income...

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Universal Child Care, Maternal Employment, and Children's Long-Run Outcomes : Evidence from the U.S. Lanham Act of 1940

Herbst, Chris M. - 2014

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the Lanham Act of 1940, a heavily-subsidized and universal child care program that was administered throughout the U.S. during World War II. I begin by estimating the impact of the Lanham Act on maternal employment using 1940 and 1950 Census data...

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