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We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children’s labor market out- comes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian...
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We estimate the impact of parental health on adult children's labor market outcomes. We focus on health shocks which increase care dependency abruptly. Our estimation strategy exploits the variation in the timing of shocks across treated families. Empirical results based on Austrian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296219
I study the consequences for labor market outcomes and sick leave of having an elderly parent in need of care. Using Swedish register data I compare the labor market outcome trajectories of adult children before and after their parent suffers a health shock. I find that employment and income of...
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How do adult children trade-off working and providing long-term care (LTC) to parents? How do international caregivers help with this trade-off? What are the effects of allowing international caregivers compared with other commonly implemented LTC policies? Using data from Taiwan, we first...
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We argue that previous research on time devoted to child care has devoted insufficient attention to the definition and conceptualization of care time. Three separate problems are evident. First, the conventional focus on explicit activities with children distracts attention from the larger...
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How parents respond to changes in the price of childcare is an important, though not fully understood, public policy question. Our paper provides new comprehensive evidence on how a home care subsidy jointly affects maternal labour market outcomes, childcare choices, and children's development....
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How parents respond to changes in the price of childcare is an important, though not fully understood, public policy question. Our paper provides new comprehensive evidence on how a home care subsidy jointly affects maternal labour market outcomes, childcare choices, and children's development....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226591
keine öffentlich geförderte Kinderbetreuung besuchen, auf die Erwerbsverläufe der Mütter, den Besuch geförderter … Kinderbetreuung und die Fähigkeiten der Kinder. Administrative Daten zu den Erwerbsverläufen der Mütter und zur späteren Schuleignung … der Kinder kombiniert die Studie mit Befragungsdaten zum Besuch geförderter Kinderbetreuung. Die Möglichkeit …
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This study examines the long-term effects of a national policy of Vietnam that provided free public health care for all children under 6 years old, 74.2% of whom were previously uninsured. I estimate the effects of exposure to the policy at age 0 to 6 on outcomes at age 7 to 21, when individuals...
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We evaluate the effect of a preschool health intervention aimed at reducing infections through improved hygiene practices and training of the staff. The large-scale design enables us to study heterogeneous effects with respect to several child and preschool characteristics that are assumed to be...
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