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Life‐cycle and intergenerational effects of child care reforms
Chan, Marc K.; Liu, Kai - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 2, pp. 659-706
employment and fertility among women, as well as long‐run cognitive outcomes among children. A dynamic structural model of … employment, fertility, and child care use is estimated using Norwegian administrative data. The estimation exploits a large … that the reform generates sizable changes in employment and fertility decisions, especially among low‐education women. We …
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Setting the scene: The mix of family policy objectives and packages across the OECD
Adema, Willem - In: Children and Youth Services Review 34 (2012) 3, pp. 487-498
Although changing in shape and form, families remain the cornerstone of society. Across the OECD Public policy supports families, but across countries the balance of underlying policy objectives can be different. For example, in some countries, family policy is largely driven by concerns about...
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Female employment and childcare
Hassani-Nezhad, Lena - 2020
effects of childcare subsidies on labour supply, fertility, marriage, and childcare decisions in a collective setting. In the …
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Female labour supply and childcare in Italy
Figari, Francesco; Narazani, Edlira - 2017
It is widely recognized that childcare has important pedagogical, economic and social effects on both children and parents. This paper is the first attempt to estimate a joint structural model of female labour supply and childcare behavior applied to Italy in order to analyse the effects of...
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Universal childcare for the youngest and the maternal labour supply
Kunze, Astrid; Liu, Xingfei - 2019
In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit a nationwide reform that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973903
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Universal childcare for the youngest and the maternal labour supply
Kunze, Astrid; Liu, Xingfei - 2019
In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit a nationwide reform that expanded childcare for 1-2- year-olds in Norway....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979049
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Gender bias in tax systems based on household income
Andrienko, Jurij; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014
The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...
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Will childcare subsidies increase the labour supply of mothers in Ireland?
Doorley, Karina; Tuda, Dora; Duggan, Luke - 2023
The cost of childcare has a significant impact on the decision of parents - particularly mothers - to work. Prior to the introduction of subsidies for formal childcare in Ireland in 2019 through the National Childcare Scheme (NCS), the cost of full-time centre-based childcare was among the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285814
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Will childcare subsidies increase the labour supply of mothers in Ireland?
Doorley, Karina; Tuda, Dora; Duggan, Luke - 2023
The cost of childcare has a significant impact on the decision of parents – particularly mothers – to work. Prior to the introduction of subsidies for formal childcare in Ireland in 2019 through the National Childcare Scheme (NCS), the cost of full-time centre-based childcare was among the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014487432
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Labor supply and child care choices in a rationed child care market
Wrohlich, Katharina - 2011
This paper presents an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...
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