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Modes of child care
Glomm, Gerhard; Meier, Volker - 2016
We model choices between caring for an infant at home or through some market provision of child care. Maternal labor supply necessitates child care purchased in the market. Households are distinguished along three dimensions: (i) Exogenous income, (ii) the wage rate of the primary care giver and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587881
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Making work pay : increasing labour supply of secondary earners in low income families with children
Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michał; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2015
implications of a diverse set of possible reforms to the main elements of tax and benefit support of families with children. We set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388330
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Universal childcare and longer-run effects on parental health and behaviors : evidence from a Canadian universal child care program
Lebihan, Laëtitia; Haeck, Catherine; Lefebvre, Pierre; … - 2015
' depression scores with preschool children as well as scores of inappropriate parenting behavior. The policy increased hostile and …
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The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies
Karademir, Sencer; Laliberté, Jean-William; Staubli, Stefan - 2023
The disproportionate impact of children on women's earnings constitutes the primary factor contributing to persistent … gender inequality in many countries. This paper examines the multigenerational impact of children and whether the public … provision of formal childcare lessens the earnings and employment impacts of children. Our analyses notably incorporate the role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255940
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Three family policies to reconcile fertility and labor supply
Fenge, Robert; Stadler, Lisa - 2014
In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children … in balancing family and work than parental leave payments. The welfare analysis shows that the introduction of subsidies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388733
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Household Labor Supply, Child Development and Childcare Policies in the United States
Verriest, Ewout - 2019
This paper studies the dynamic relationship between parental labor supply, children's cognitive development and intra … Credit, in terms of fostering child cognition and reducing intra-household inequality, could be improved by giving cash to … 25 percent subsidy could boost young children's skills by over 0.1 standard deviations, increase maternal labor supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893410
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The effects of family policy on mothers' labor supply : combining evidence from a structural model and a natural experiment
Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014
Parental leave and subsidized child care are prominent examples of family policies supporting the reconciliation of … family life and labor market careers for mothers. In this paper, we combine different empirical strategies to evaluate the … employment effects of these policies for mothers in Germany. In particular we estimate a structural labor supply model and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259541
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Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? : evidence from a structural model
Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009
decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer system which differs by employment state and number of children. To … this end we simulate in detail the effects of the tax and transfer system including child care costs. The model provides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003904913
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Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility? : evidence from a structural model
Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2009
decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer system which differs by employment state and number of children. To … this end we simulate in detail the effects of the tax and transfer system including child care costs. The model provides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003889513
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The effects of family policy on mothers' labor supply : combining evidence from a structural model and a natural experiment
Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014
Parental leave and subsidized child care are prominent examples of family policies supporting the reconciliation of … family life and labor market careers for mothers. In this paper, we combine different empirical strategies to evaluate the … employment effects of these policies for mothers in Germany. In particular we estimate a structural labor supply model and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345617