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The effect of paying parents to adopt: evidence from Minnesota's foster-care system
Bishop, Kelly C.; Mac Donald, Diana E. - 2022
Aimed at increasing the adoption rate of older children, Minnesota's 2015 Northstar Care Program eliminated the adoption penalty (the decrease in fostering-based financial transfers associated with adoption) for children aged six and older, while maintaining it for children under age six. Using...
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Single Parents
Klimczuk, Andrzej - 2021
Services for single parents constitute a category of child and family services. These services are carried out by public and non-governmental bodies for people who are single parents by the unfortunate events or by their own choice. Individuals come to single parenthood mainly through divorce,...
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Running Out of Time : Voices of Parents Struggling to Move from Welfare to Work
Flaming, Daniel - 2016
The family needs survey was conducted over a three-week period from April 25 through May 15, 2002, at 230 different events in 124 different locations throughout Los Angeles County. Nearly 60 percent of the surveys were completed in welfare offices, the rest in adult education classes and...
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Getting the State out of Pre-School & Childcare : Ending the Nannying of UK Parents
Bourne, Ryan; Shackleton, J. R. - 2021
arisen that government action is needed to raise the quality of provision, to make it more affordable and to support parental … to make free choices about the types and quality of provision they want for their children. Regulation of the childcare … government regulation would be replaced by private forms of quality assurance. Universal free care should be scrapped, along with …
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The effect of parental job loss on child school dropout : evidence from the occupied Palestinian territories
Di Maio, Michele; Nisticò, Roberto - 2019
We study the effect of parental job loss on child school dropout in developing countries. We focus on Palestinian households living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and having the household head employed in Israel during the Second Intifada (2000-2006). We exploit quarterly variation in...
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The Labour Supply Effect of Education Maintenance Allowance and its Implications for Parental Altruism
Holford, Angus - 2015
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) was a UK government cash transfer paid directly to children aged 16-18, in the first two years of post-compulsory full-time education. This paper uses the labour supply effect of EMA to infer the magnitude of the transfer response made by the parent, and so...
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Elternbeiträge für die Ganztagsbetreuung von Grundschulkindern: Eine Betrachtung der institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen in den Bundesländern und der Gebührenordnungen von Großstädt...
Geis-Thöne, Wido - 2022
Die Ganztagsbetreuung von Grundschulkindern ist in Deutschland regional sehr unterschiedlich organisiert. So erfolgt sie in den meisten ostdeutschen Bundesländern vorwiegend in Horten, die der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe zugeordnet sind, wohingegen diese Funktionen in Nordrhein-Westfalen von den...
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Satisfaction of Italian Parents with Inter-Country Adoption : the Support of Specialised Operators
Oldani, Chiara - 2021
This study investigates the satisfaction of Italian adoptive parents with their experience and the support by specialised operators (i.e., accredited bodies and local public social services) using the survey data of 280 adoptive families. Inter-country adoption is a voluntary family choice....
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Elternbeiträge für die Ganztagsbetreuung von Grundschulkindern : eine Betrachtung der institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen in den Bundesländern und der Gebührenordnungen von Großstäd...
Geis-Thöne, Wido - 2022
Die Ganztagsbetreuung von Grundschulkindern ist in Deutschland regional sehr unterschiedlich organisiert. So erfolgt sie in den meisten ostdeutschen Bundesländern vorwiegend in Horten, die der Kinder- und Jugendhilfe zugeordnet sind, wohingegen diese Funktionen in Nordrhein-Westfalen von den...
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Parental allowance increase and labor supply : evidence from a Czech reform
Grossmann, Jakub; Pertold, Filip; Šoltés, Michal - 2023
We study the effect of a CZK 80,000 (36%) increase in parental allowance, a universal basic income-type benefit, on the labor supply of parents in the Czech Republic. Drawing a parental allowance does not preclude labor market activity, which allows us to study the income effect. After the...
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