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The difficult case of persuading women : experimental evidence from childcare
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2013
Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...
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Females' Willingness to Work and the Discouragement Effect of a Poor Local Childcare Provision
van Ham, Maarten; Büchel, Felix - 2021
We analyze the effects of regional structures on females' willingness to work as well as on the probability that non-employed women who are willing to work actually will engage in job search. Special permission was granted to link regional data to individual respondents in the German...
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Child Care Subsidy Receipt, Employment, and Child Care Choices of Single Mothers
Tekin, Erdal - 2021
This paper examines the impact of actual subsidy receipt of single mothers on their joint employment and child care mode decisions in the post-welfare reform environment, which places a high priority on parental choice with the quality and type of care chosen. Results indicate that single...
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The Determinants and Consequences of Child Care Subsidies for Single Mothers
Blau, David M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2021
This paper provides an early analysis of child care subsidies under welfare reform. Previous studies of child care subsidies use data from the pre-welfare-reform period, and their results may not apply to the very different post-reform environment. We use data from the 1997 National Survey of...
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Cash-for-care, or caring for cash? : the effects of a home care subsidy on maternal employment, childcare choices, and children's development
Collischon, Matthias; Kühnle, Daniel; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2020
How parents respond to changes in the price of childcare is an important, though not fully understood, public policy question. Our paper provides new comprehensive evidence on how a home care subsidy jointly affects maternal labour market outcomes, childcare choices, and children's development....
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The EITC and maternal time use : more time working and less time with kids?
Bastian, Jacob; Lochner, Lance - 2020
Parents spend considerable time and resources investing in their children's development. Given evidence that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) affects maternal labor supply, we investigate how the EITC affects a broad array of time-use activities, focusing on the amount and nature of time...
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The earned income tax credit and maternal time use: more time working and less time with kids?
Bastian, Jacob; Lochner, Lance - 2020
Parents spend considerable sums investing in their children's development, with their own time among the most important forms of investment. Given well-documented effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on maternal labor supply, it is natural to ask how the EITC affects other time...
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Early child development and parents' labor supply
Lafférs, Lukás; Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020
The impact of children's early development status on parental labor market outcomes is not well established in the empirical literature. We combine an instrumental variable approach to account for the endogeneity of the development status with a model of non- random labor force participation to...
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Cash-for-care, or caring for cash? : the effects of a home care subsidy on maternal employment, childcare choices, and children's development
Collischon, Matthias; Kühnle, Daniel; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2020
keine öffentlich geförderte Kinderbetreuung besuchen, auf die Erwerbsverläufe der Mütter, den Besuch geförderter … Kinderbetreuung und die Fähigkeiten der Kinder. Administrative Daten zu den Erwerbsverläufen der Mütter und zur späteren Schuleignung … der Kinder kombiniert die Studie mit Befragungsdaten zum Besuch geförderter Kinderbetreuung. Die Möglichkeit …
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Child care reforms and labor participation of migrant and native mothers
Fendel, Tanja; Jochimsen, Beate - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung - 2017
öffentlicher Kinderbetreuung zu steigern. Ob die letzten Kinderbetreuungsreformen von 2013 in dieser Hinsicht erfolgreich sind, ist … keine öffentliche Kinderbetreuung nutzen, negative Effekte zu erwarten sind, sollte der seit 2013 geltende Rechtsanspruch … auf öffentliche Betreuung für Kinder des gleichen Alters zu einem Anstieg der Nutzung öffentlicher Kinderbetreuung führen …
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