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Full childcare coverage: Higher maternal labour supply and childcare usage?

Vanleenhove, Pieter - 2013

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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Do childcare policies increase maternal employment? : subsidized childcare fosters maternal employment, but employment status, childcare quality, and availability matter

Vuri, Daniela - 2016

satisfactory work-life balance. Childcare allows the primary caregiver, usually the mother, to take time away from childrearing for … employment. Family policies that subsidize childcare and increase its availability have different effects on female labor supply … may depend on countryspecific pre-reform female employment and earnings, and childcare availability, costs, and quality. …

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Child care subsidies, wages, and employment of single mothers

Tekin, Erdal - 2002

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment and child care payment decisions of single mothers in the early post-welfare reform environment, using data from the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF). I develop and estimate a model that examines the effects of the price of...

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Cutting fertility? : the effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016 - First version: May 2, 2016

The incidence of Cesarean deliveries (CDs) has been on the rise. The procedure's cost and benefits are discussed controversially; in particular, since non-medically indicated cases seem widespread. We study the effect of CDs on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is...

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Grandparental availability for child care and maternal employment : pension reform evidence from Italy

Bratti, Massimiliano; Frattini, Tommaso; Scervini, Francesco - 2016

In this paper, we exploit pension reform-induced changes in retirement eligibility requirements to assess the role of grandparental child care availability in the employment of women who have children under 15. We focus on Italy for two reasons: first, it has low rates of female employment and...

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Care more, earn less? : the association between care leave for sick children and wage among Swedish parents

Boye, Katarina - 2015

A number of studies have shown that women’s and men’s wages relate to parenthood in general and to parental leave in particular, but we know little about the possible wage impact of leave to care for sick children, which is a part of the Swedish parental leave system. On the one hand, care...

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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...

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With strings attached : grandparent-provided child care and female labor market outcomes

García-Morán, Eva; Kuehn, Zoë - 2013

Grandparents are regular providers of free child care. Similar to other forms of child care, availability of grandparent-provided child care affects fertility and labor force participation of women positively. However, grandparent-provided child care requires residing close to parents or in-laws...

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Cutting fertility? : the effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016

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Cutting fertility : the effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016

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