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Parenthood, child care, and nonstandard work schedules in Europe

Bünning, Mareike; Pollmann-Schult, Matthias - 2016

An increasing proportion of the European labor force works in the evening, at night or on weekends. Because nonstandard work schedules are associated with a number of negative outcomes for families and children, parents may seek to avoid such schedules. However, for parents with insufficient...

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The role of the career costs of children for the effect of public child care on fertility and maternal employment

Huber, Katrin - 2019

This paper investigates whether the effects of affordable and easily available public child care on fertility and maternal employment depend on the career costs of children a woman faces. It builds on the idea that these costs vary by occupation and education. In a generalized Diff-in-Diff, I...

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Does formal child care availability for 0-3 year olds boost mothers' employment rate? : panel data based evidence from Belgium

Dujardin, Claire; Fonder, Muriel; Lejeune, Bernard - In: Annals of economics and statistics 129 (2018), pp. 103-126

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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...

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Childcare and maternal employment : evidence from Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Hiraga, Masako; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2019

Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and the few recent studies offer mixed results. We attempt to fill these gaps by analyzing several latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey...

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The impact of parental leave policy on child-rearing and employment behavior : the case of Germany

Chirkova, Serafima - In: IZA journal of labor policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-27

benefits to estimate the impact of the reform. I incorporated the mother’s decision to substitute her care time with the public … after the reform implementation. Only for high-income mothers, the reform produced a significant decrease in the employment …

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Childcare and maternal employment : evidence from Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Hiraga, Masako; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2019

Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and recent studies offer mixed results. We attempt to fill these gaps by analyzing several of the latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159291

Investing in subsidized childcare to reduce child poverty : an adequate strategy?

Hufkens, Tine; Figari, Francesco; Vandelannoote, Dieter; … - 2019

Expanding childcare is often considered as a suitable way to enhance employment opportunities of mothers with young … set of scenarios of increasing subsidized childcare slots and mothers' employment. For a variety of European welfare … increased mothers' employment should be well targeted. The expenditures for additional childcare slots can to a large extent be …

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Universal daycare and mothers' working lifetime

Sander, Sarah - 2024

This paper examines the effects of universal daycare on mothers' labor force participation, full-time employment, and … participation effects. For higher-educated mothers, participation effects diminish over time, whereas earnings effects prevail in …

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Early child care and labor supply of lower-SES mothers : a randomized controlled trial

Hermes, Henning; Krauß, Marina; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2023

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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