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(i.e., caregiver education and experience), and convenience (i.e., caregiver car ownership and availability). We find …
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application process. Using data from the Kindergarten cohort of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, our instrumental variables … estimates suggest that children receiving subsidized care in the year before kindergarten score lower on tests of cognitive … ability and reveal more behavior problems throughout kindergarten. However, these negative effects largely disappear by the …
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This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment and child care payment decisions of single mothers in the early post-welfare reform environment, using data from the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF). I develop and estimate a model that examines the effects of the price of...
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Most public expenditure on childcare in the US is made through a federal program, the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), established as part of landmark welfare reform legislation in 1996. The main goal of the reform was to increase employment and reduce welfare dependence among low-income...
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This paper uses a rich employer-employee matched data set to investigate the existence and the extent of nonprofit and part-time wage and compensation differentials in child care. The empirical strategy adjusts for workers' self-selection into the for-profit or nonprofit sectors, into full-time...
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