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We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school-age children have widened but not for those with younger children....
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applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment among lower-SES families. The treatment increases lower-SES mothers' full …-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers' earnings by 22%. The effect on full …
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applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment among lower-SES families. The treatment increases lower-SES mothers' full …-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers' earnings by 22%. The effect on full …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013475219
We provide experimental evidence that enabling access to universal early child care increases maternal labor supply and promotes gender equality among families with lower socioeconomic status (SES). Our intervention offers information and customized help with child care applications, leading to...
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applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment among lower-SES families. The treatment increases lower-SES mothers' full …-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers' earnings by 22%. The effect on full …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247851
This paper uses the random assignment of poor families to treatment and control conditions in the Comprehensive Child Development Program (CCDP) to isolate the causal effect of center-based child care enrollment on child well-being. Operating throughout the early-1990's, the CCDP demonstration...
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applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment among lower-SES families. The treatment increases lower-SES mothers' full …-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers' earnings by 22%. The effect on full …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013468252
This paper investigates how mothers' decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers …. Identification is based on the introduction of the Cash-for-Care program in Norway in 1998, which increased mothers' incentives to … five. However, from age six, we can no longer see any effects. The effects seem to dissipate because most mothers remained …
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countries, implying that mothers spend less time with their children and that families rely more on external sources of …
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adverse effect for children of low-educated mothers on human capital investments and labor-market attachment in early … of home production. Sons of low-educated mothers, on the other hand, were less likely to be employed. The results suggest …
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