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Subsidising formal childcare versus grandmothers' time : which policy is more effective?

Osuna-Padilla, Victoria - In: Economics / Journal articles : the open-access, … 15 (2021) 1, pp. 85-111

This article quantifies the relative effectiveness of childcare subsidies and subsidies on grandmothers' time on … are used as a benchmark for calibration. The results indicate that childcare subsidies conditional on employment are more … childcare costs only is more effective because the fiscal effort is lower. Regarding the heterogeneous effects, in all the …

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Neither backlash nor convergence : dynamics of intra-couple childcare division during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany

Boll, Christina; Müller, Dana; Schüller, Simone - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-17

widening/closing the gender gap in parental childcare during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany. We consider prepandemic division … egalitarian division that, however, faded out in subsequent months. Starting from a fairly “traditional” prepandemic childcare … the necessity vanishes. Further, a shift is observed only if fathers were to some extent involved in childcare prepandemic …

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The short run effects of childbirth on parents’ earnings in the Baltics

Černiauska, Nerijus - In: Baltic journal of economics 23 (2023) 1, pp. 45-63

Having a child can have a heavy toll on parents' earnings, especially in the first years after childbirth, with mothers often being more affected than fathers. This is particularly true in the three Baltic states, with relatively generous parental leave benefits compared to the EU and norms...

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Childcare allowance

Fendel, Tanja; Jochimsen, Beate - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 103 (2023) 5, pp. 309-313

, there was a nationwide home care allowance for parents who did not use public childcare for children aged one to two years …

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The impact of COVID-19 on the gender division of housework and childcare: Evidence from two waves of the pandemic in Italy

Del Boca, Daniela; Oggero, Noemi; Profeta, Paola; … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 11 (2022) 1, pp. 1-20

childcare. Much of the additional burden has been shouldered by women. Yet, the rise in remote working also has the potential to …

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The effect of child benefit on female labor supply

Magda, Iga; Kiełczewska, Aneta; Brandt, Nicola - In: IZA journal of labor policy 10 (2020) 1/17, pp. 1-18

In 2016, the Polish government introduced a large child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility and reduce child poverty. It is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. We study the impact of the new benefit on female labor...

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Does accessibility to local public employment agencies matter? : answers from a French quasi-experiment

Bunel, Mathieu; Tovar, Elisabeth - In: Applied economics 51 (2019) 22, pp. 2422-2435

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Chaos as a social determinant of child health: Reciprocal associations?

Kamp Dush, Claire M.; Schmeer, Kammi K.; Taylor, Miles - In: Social Science & Medicine 95 (2013) C, pp. 69-76

This study informs the social determinants of child health by exploring an understudied aspect of children's social contexts: chaos. Chaos has been conceptualized as crowded, noisy, disorganized, unpredictable settings for child development (Evans, Eckenrode, & Marcynyszyn, 2010). We measure...

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Child health and maternal labour market engagement in Ghana

Baah-Boateng, William; Laar, Kingsley; … - In: Journal of social and economic development 23 (2021) 2, pp. 283-301

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The effect of preschool attendance on children's health : evidence from a lower middle-income country

Cuong Viet Nguyen - In: Health economics 31 (2022) 8, pp. 1558-1589

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