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Money for nothing? Universal child care and maternal employment

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2009

The strong correlation between child care and maternal employment rates has led previous research to conclude that affordable and readily available child care is a driving force both of cross-country differences in maternal employment and of its rapid growth over the last decades. We analyze the...

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Money for Nothing? Universal Child Care and Maternal Employment

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2009

The strong correlation between child care and maternal employment rates has led previous research to conclude that a ordable and readily available child care is a driving force both of cross-country di erences in maternal employment and of its rapid growth over the last decades. We analyze the...

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Money for Nothing? Universal Child Care and Maternal Employment

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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Consequences of mixed provision of child care: An overview on the German market

Muehler, Grit - 2010

Universal child care that is available, affordable and of good quality is regarded as a key instrument of a country's social and labor market policy. As full public involvement in the provision of child care is costly, licensing non-public providers can enlarges parental choice and relieve...

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Universal Child Care, Maternal Employment, and Children's Long-Run Outcomes: Evidence from the U.S. Lanham Act of 1940

Herbst, Chris M. - 2013

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the Lanham Act of 1940, a heavily-subsidized and universal child care program that was administered throughout the U.S. during World War II. I begin by estimating the impact of the Lanham Act on maternal employment using 1940 and 1950 Census data...

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Is universal child care leveling the playing field?

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2012

quantile treatment effects, showing how the child care expansion affected the earnings distribution of exposed children as … suggest that the effects of child care vary systematically across the earnings distribution, that the mean impact misses a lot … middle and upper-class children are unlikely to exceed the costs. To help understand the differential effects on earnings, we …

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Universal child care and inequality of opportunity. Descriptive findings from Norway

Drange, Nina; Telle, Kjetil - 2018

Encouraging effects from random assignments of intensive and high-quality early child care to disadvantaged children have spurred hopes that publicly funded universal child care can improve human development and social mobility. However, in a universal system advantaged parents can improve the...

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Who benefits from universal child care? Estimating marginal returns to early child care attendance

Cornelißen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Raute, Anna; … - 2018

In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany by exploiting the exogenous variation in attendance caused by a reform that led to a large staggered expansion across municipalities. Drawing on novel administrative data from...

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Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance

Cornelissen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Raute, Anna; … - 2018

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Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendanc

Cornelissen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Raute, Anna … - 2018

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