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Fertility decisions and alternative types of childcare : relative costs and family characteristics determine the effectiveness of different forms of childcare
Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2017
Increasing population age and low fertility rates, which characterize most modern societies, compromise the balance … influence fertility decisions. Policies related to the availability and costs of different kinds of childcare (e.g. formal care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011730588
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On problems related to measures for reconciling family activity and gainful employment as a means to promote desired fertility
Schwarz, Karl - In: Zeitschrift für Bevölkerungswissenschaft : Demographie 32 (2007) 1/2, pp. 35-50
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Gender power, fertility, and family policy
Kemnitz, Alexander; Thum, Marcel - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 117 (2015) 1, pp. 220-247
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Do the perils of universal childcare depend on the child's age? (Families, children and human capital formation)
Kottelenberg, Michael J.; Lehrer, Steven F. - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 60 (2014) 2, pp. 338-365
The rising participation of women in paid work has not only heightened demand for universal early education and care programs but also led to increased use of childcare amongst children at earlier ages. Prior research investigating Quebec’s universal highly subsidized childcare documented...
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The effect of education, family size, unemployment and childcare availability on birth stopping and timing
Varga, Márton - In: Portuguese economic journal 13 (2014) 2, pp. 95-115
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Comparative analysis of the motherhood gap in employment and wages : the role of family policies and their interaction
Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa - 2016
The paper documents employment and wage gaps, which arise between mothers and childless women, for a set of 28 European countries. The role of family policies in explaining these inequalities is then examined by looking at a single policy as well as childcare and leave policies interaction. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451482
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Why Did Rich Families Increase Their Fertility? Inequality and Marketization of Child Care
Bar, Michael - 2019
A negative relationship between income and fertility has persisted for so long that its existence is often taken for … fertility between rich and poor. We show that the relationship between income and fertility has flattened between 1980 and 2010 … in the US, a time of increasing inequality, as high income families increased their fertility. These facts challenge the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012897954
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Parental Parity : Intentional Parenthood's Promise
Jacobs, Melanie B. - 2016
Parental Parity begins a critical dialogue regarding the reformation of legal parentage. Scholars have been advocating for more than a decade that courts and legislatures eschew traditional status based parentage (e.g., birth and biology) in the context of parentage establishment when assisted...
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The effect of family welfare support on the likelihood of having another child and parents' labor supply
Milovanska-Farrington, Stefani - In: Research in economics : an international review of economics 73 (2019) 3, pp. 243-263
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Froebel's gifts : how the kindergarten movement changed the American family
Ager, Philipp; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020
household outcomes. We find that in cities with a larger kindergarten exposure, families significantly reduced fertility, with …. Households reduced fertility because kindergarten attendance increased returns to education, but it also led to higher …
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