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Childcare choices and child development : generous parental leave and affordable, high-quality childcare can foster childrens's abilities
Del Boca, Daniela - 2015
childcare. This trend has raised concerns, and an intense debate in several countries has focused on the effectiveness of … childcare policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430563
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Parents' effective time endowment and divorce : evidence from extended school days
Padilla-Romo, María; Peluffo, Cecilia; Viollaz, Mariana - 2022
Policies that extend the school day in elementary school provide an implicit childcare subsidy for families. As such … childcare is likely to be one of the mechanisms that relaxed restrictions to marriage dissolution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013206326
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Longer school schedules, childcare and the quality of mothers' employment : evidence from school reform in Chile
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Lauer, Catalina; … - 2020
Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers' labor force … participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the … was the effect of the reform's implicit subsidy to the cost of childcare on the opportunity cost of mothers' time. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208607
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309549
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Long-term effects of early childhood care and education
Ruhm, Christopher J.; Waldfogel, Jane - 2011
This paper critically reviews what we know about the long-term effects of parental leave and early childhood education programs. We find only limited evidence that expansions of parental leave durations improved long-run educational or labor market outcomes of the children whose parents were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009521179
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Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Care and Education
Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2011
This paper critically reviews what we know about the long-term effects of parental leave and early childhood education programs. We find only limited evidence that expansions of parental leave durations improved long-run educational or labor market outcomes of the children whose parents were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117837
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Effects of extending paid parental leave on children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence
Houmark, Mikkel Aagaard; Jørgensen, Cecilie Marie Løchte - 2022
We study how children's socio-emotional skills and well-being in adolescence are affected by an increase in the duration of parental care during infancy. Exploiting a Danish reform that extended paid parental leave in 2002 and effectively delayed children's entry into formal out-of-home care, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013275400
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A Flying Start? Maternity Leave Benefits and Long Run Outcomes of Children
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel; Løken, Katrine Vellesen; … - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316003
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Non-Cognitive Child Outcomes and Universal High Quality Child Care
Datta Gupta, Nabanita; Simonsen, Marianne - 2021
Exploiting a rich panel data child survey merged with administrative records along with a pseudo-experiment generating variation in the take-up of pre-school across municipalities, we provide evidence of the effects on non-cognitive child outcomes of participating in large scale publicly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316678
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Paid parental leave and child development : evidence from the 2007 German parental benefit reform and administrative data
Huebener, Mathias; Kuehnle, Daniel; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2017
This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011619598