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The form of U.S. in-kind assistance
O'Flaherty, Brendan - In: The journal of law, economics, & organization 15 (1999) 2, pp. 401-417
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Subjekthilfe statt Markteingriff oder Objektsubvention
Breyer, Friedrich - In: Freiheit und soziale Verantwortung : Grundsätze …, (pp. 223 - 239). 2001
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The Form of U.S. In-Kind Assistance
O'Flaherty, Brendan - 2006
Child care and housing programs in the United States are marked by quality homogeneity, restricted eligibility, rationing, and copayments that increase as recipients' income rises. Why? I show that these programs can best be explained as attempts to reduce the child care or housing 'poverty...
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Little cash to large households : cash transfers and children's care in disadvantaged families in Ghana
Roelen, Keetie; Chettri, Helen Karki; Delap, Emily - In: International social security review 68 (2015) 2, pp. 63-83
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Delay of gratification and the role of defaults : an experiment with kindergarten children
Sutter, Matthias; Yilmaz, Levent; Oberauer, Manuela - 2015
. We study in an experiment with 336 kindergarten children, aged three to six years, whether intertemporal choice behavior … is malleable. In a control condition, about 50% of children prefer two rewards the next day over one reward immediately … successfully in promoting delay of gratification. We also find that patience increases with age and that more patient children have …
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Parental leave and maternal labor supply : parental leave increases the family-work balance, but may have negative impacts on mothers' careers
Kunze, Astrid - 2016
Numerous studies have investigated whether the provision and generosity of parental leave affects the employment and career prospects of women. Parental leave systems typically provide either short unpaid leave mandated by the firm, as in the US, or more generous and universal leave mandated by...
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The stress cost of children
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wooden, Mark - 2015
We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production,...
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Parental time investments in children : the role of competition for university places in the UK
Sevilla, Almudena; Borra, Cristina - 2015
investments by college and non-college educated parents and their children widened up precisely during this first period …
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Children and female employment in Mongolia
Nikolova, Elena; Polansky, Jakub - 2022
Socio- Economic Survey (HSES) to examine the correlation between the presence of children of different age categories in a … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …
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