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benefit from help with childcare since grandmothers are less likely to be employed after their child's job displacement and …
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the fertility rate and decreasing population, and the issues surrounding parenting and childcare have been re … comprehensive system for parenting and childcare in Japan. …
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According to many studies, childcare is an important input for children's development but it is also used to free up … time for parents to work. However, many households are still confronted with availability constraints in childcare. In the … recent past, many governments implemented policy reforms in order to increase the coverage rate of childcare. The empirical …
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source of childcare. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79), we investigate whether the availability … of this source of childcare has a causal effect on mother's labor force participation. We compare Ordinary Least Squares … the effect of grandparental childcare on young mothers' labor force participation and are not significantly different from …
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We analyse preferences for public, private or mixed provision of childcare theoretically and empirically. We model … childcare as a publicly provided private good. Richer households should prefer private provision to either pure public or mixed …
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in childcare. In the framework of a general efficiency approach, hours spent on childcare by each parent are regressed … childcare between fathers and mothers, with this being more evident in Mediterranean countries. Panel data estimates reveal that …
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Background: Assessing the impact of cost sharing on healthcare utilization is a critical issue in health economics and health policy. It may affect the utilization of different services, but is yet to be well understood. Objective: This paper investigates the effects of reducing cost sharing for...
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We analyze how access to childcare affects health outcomes of children with unemployed parents using a reform that … increased childcare access in some Swedish municipalities. For 4-5 year olds, we find an immediate increase in infection …-related hospitalization, when these children first get access to childcare. We find no effect on younger children. When children are 10 …
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We analyze how access to childcare affects the health outcomes of children with unemployed parents using a reform that … increased childcare access in some Swedish municipalities. While we find no effects of childcare access on hospitalization for 2 … they first gained access to childcare. Children aged 10 to 11 years who had access to childcare earlier in their childhood …
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