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The multigenerational impact of children and childcare policies
Karademir, Sencer; Laliberté, Jean-William; Staubli, Stefan - 2023
provision of formal childcare lessens the earnings and employment impacts of children. Our analyses notably incorporate the role … of grandparents as informal providers of childcare. We find that the arrival of a firstborn reduces the employment and … thought. Studying the implementation of a universal childcare program in the province of Quebec, we find that formal childcare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500676
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The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies
Karademir, Sencer; Laliberté, Jean-William; Staubli, Stefan - 2023
provision of formal childcare lessens the earnings and employment impacts of children. Our analyses notably incorporate the role … of grandparents as informal providers of childcare. We find that the arrival of a firstborn reduces the employment and … thought. Studying the implementation of a universal childcare program in the province of Quebec, we find that formal childcare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255940
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Life-cycle and intergenerational effects of child care reforms
Chan, Marc K.; Liu, Kai - 2015
We investigate the importance of various mechanisms by which child care policies can affect life-cycle patterns of employment and fertility among women, as well as long-run cognitive outcomes among children. A structural life-cycle model of employment, fertility, and child care use is estimated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346579
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Universal child care, maternal employment, and children's long-run outcomes : evidence from the US Lanham Act of 1940
Herbst, Chris M. - 2013
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the Lanham Act of 1940, a heavily-subsidized and universal child care program that was administered throughout the U.S. during World War II. I begin by estimating the impact of the Lanham Act on maternal employment using 1940 and 1950 Census data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229538
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The role of the career costs of children for the effect of public child care on fertility and maternal employment
Huber, Katrin - 2019
This paper investigates whether the effects of affordable and easily available public child care on fertility and maternal employment depend on the career costs of children a woman faces. It builds on the idea that these costs vary by occupation and education. In a generalized Diff-in-Diff, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012063075
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The role of the career costs of children for the effect of public child care on fertility and maternal employment
Huber, Katrin - 2019
This paper investigates whether the effects of affordable and easily available public child care on fertility and maternal employment depend on the career costs of children a woman faces. It builds on the idea that these costs vary by occupation and education. In a generalized Diff-in-Diff, I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012009231
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Public child care and mothers' career trajectories
Huber, Katrin; Rolvering, Geske - 2023
We study the impact of public child care on mothers' career trajectories, focusing on qualitative dimensions of career choices. Using an event study approach, we find that child care helps mothers to return to the labor market more quickly and that this effect is mainly due to an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014338593
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Public child care and mothers' career trajectories
Huber, Katrin; Rolvering, Geske - 2023
We study the impact of public child care on mothers' career trajectories, focusing on qualitative dimensions of career choices. Using an event study approach, we find that child care helps mothers to return to the labor market more quickly and that this effect is mainly due to an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014339080
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Effects of center-based child care on disadvantaged children : evidence from a randomized research design
Herbst, Chris M. - 2024
This paper uses the random assignment of poor families to treatment and control conditions in the Comprehensive Child Development Program (CCDP) to isolate the causal effect of center-based child care enrollment on child well-being. Operating throughout the early-1990's, the CCDP demonstration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015084192
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Quantiles of the gain distribution of an early childhood intervention
Battistin, Erich; Lamarche, Carlos; Rettore, Enrico - 2020
We offer a new strategy to identify the distribution of treatment effects using data from the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), a relatively understudied early-childhood intervention for low birth-weight infants. We introduce a new policy parameter, QCD, which denotes quantiles of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198963