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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285611
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545787
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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
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008555356
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330215
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What linear estimators miss: Re-examining the effects of family income on child outcomes
Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - 2010
This paper uses a rich Norwegian dataset to re-examine the causal relationship between family income and child outcomes. Motivated by theoretical predictions and OLS results that suggest a nonlinear relationship, we depart from previous studies in allowing the marginal effects on children's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269833
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No child left behind: Universal child care and children's long-run outcomes
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2009
There is a heated debate in the US, Canada and many European countries about introducing universally accessible child care. However, studies on universal child care and child development are scarce and only consider short-run outcomes. We analyze the introduction of universal child care in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285555
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290766
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What linear estimators miss : re-examining the effects of family income on child outcomes
Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne; Wiswall, Matthew - 2010
This paper uses a rich Norwegian dataset to re-examine the causal relationship between family income and child outcomes. Motivated by theoretical predictions and OLS results that suggest a nonlinear relationship, we depart from previous studies in allowing the marginal effects on children’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969719
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What Linear Estimators Miss : Re-Examining the Effects of Family Income on Child Outcomes
Løken, Katrine Vellesen - 2010
This paper uses a rich Norwegian dataset to re-examine the causal relationship between family income and child outcomes. Motivated by theoretical predictions and OLS results that suggest a nonlinear relationship, we depart from previous studies in allowing the marginal effects on children's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141749
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No Child Left Behind: Universal Child Care and Children's Long-Run Outcomes
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2009
There is a heated debate in the US, Canada and many European countries about introducing universally accessible child care. However, studies on universal child care and child development are scarce and only consider short-run outcomes. We analyze the introduction of universal child care in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545792