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The effects of a universal child benefit

González, Libertad - 2011

I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July 1, 2007. The regression discontinuity-type design...

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Initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment and hours of self- employed coupled and single workers by gender and parental status

Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2020

This study examines the initial impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on the employment and hours of unincorporated self-employed workers using data from the Current Population Survey. Although the shutdowns decreased employment and hours for all groups, differential effects by gender, couple status, and...

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Parental well-being in times of Covid-19 in Germany

Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - 2020

We examine the differential effects of Covid-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a "disruptive exogenous shock" to family life. We make use of a novel...

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Parental well-being in times of COVID-19 in Germany

Huebener, Mathias; Waights, Sevrin; Spieß, C. Katharina; … - 2020

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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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Parental paternalism and patience

Kiessling, Lukas; Chowdhury, Shyamal K.; … - 2021

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children's intertemporal decision-making. Based on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children's present bias and aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure...

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Early Child Care and Child Outcomes: The Role of Grandparents

Del Boca, Daniela; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In this paper, we focus on the impact of early grandparents' care on child cognitive outcomes, in the short and medium term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children looked after in a formal care centre, children cared by grandparents (as well as parents) are...

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Employment and Fertility Decisions in Italy, France and the U.K.

Boca, Daniela Del; Pasqua, Silvia; Pronzato, Chiara - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2004

According to the agenda for employment set by the EU in 2000 for the following ten years, the target for female employment was set at 60 per cent for the year 2010. While Northern and most Continental countries have achieved this quantitative target, the Mediterranean countries are lagging...

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Exploring the impacts of public childcare on mothers and children in Italy: does rationing play a role?

Brilli, Ylenia; Boca, Daniela Del; Pronzato, Chiara - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2011

This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … second grade of primary school in 2008-09 in conjunction with data on public childcare availability. Public childcare … account rationing in public childcare access and the functioning of childcare market. Our estimates indicate that childcare …

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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … second grade of primary school in 2008-09 in conjunction with data on public childcare availability. Public childcare … account rationing in public childcare access and the functioning of the childcare market. Our estimates indicate that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283582