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Early childhood care and cognitive development
Chaparro, Juan; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, Matthew - 2020
This paper combines multiple sources of information on early childhood development in a unified model for analysis of a wide range of early childhood policy interventions. We develop a model of child care in which households decide both the quantities and qualities of maternal and non-maternal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193298
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The intergenerational transmission of gender role attitudes: evidence from immigrant mothers-in-law
Bredtmann, Julia; Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Otten, Sebastian - 2020
-born mothers-in-law can explain the fertility and labor supply decisions of native US women. Our results reveal that women's labor … intergenerationally transmitted gender role attitudes affect the fertility behavior of native women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256772
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The intergenerational transmission of gender role attitudes : evidence from immigrant mothers-in-law
Bredtmann, Julia; Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Otten, Sebastian - 2017
. Focusing on daughters-in-law, we examine whether the gender role attitudes of foreign-born mothers-in-law affect the fertility … the fertility behavior of native women. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787325
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Do parents drink their children’s welfare? : intra-household allocation of time between market labour, domestic work and child care in Russia
Gianelli, Claudia Gianna; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases parents' time spent looking after children and working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, we estimate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251344
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Exploring the Impacts of Public Childcare on Mothers and Children in Italy : Does Rationing Play a Role?
Brilli, Ylenia - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children's scholastic achievements. We use a newly available dataset containing individual standardized test scores of pupils attending second grade of primary school in 2008-09 in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120847
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Do Parents Drink Their Children's Welfare? Intra-Household Allocation of Time Between Market Labour, Domestic Work and Child Care in Russia
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2017
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases parents' time spent looking after children and working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, we estimate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955316
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Exploring the impacts of public childcare on mothers and children in Italy : does rationing play a role?
Brilli, Ylenia; Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children's scholastic achievements. We use a newly available dataset containing individual standardized test scores of pupils attending second grade of primary school in 2008-09 in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009315471
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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299373
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Can immigrants help women "have it all"? : immigrant labor and women's joint fertility and labor supply decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2014
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434604
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Fertility responses of high-skilled native women to immigrant inflows
Furtado, Delia - 2014
potentially more convenient childcare options with increased fertility. An analysis of U.S. Census data between 1980 and 2000 … among women who are most likely to consider childcare costs when making fertility decisions - namely, married women with a … the types of women who have stronger fertility relative to labor supply responses to immigrant-induced changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434634