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Does a flexible parental leave system stimulate maternal employment?
Ziegler, Lennart; Bamieh, Omar - 2023
This study examines the effect of two recent parental leave reforms in Austria that allow parents to choose leave schemes with varying duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that the introduction of more flexible scheme choices led mothers to take, on average, 1-2 months less...
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Head start funding expansions and program inputs
Herbst, Chris M.; Kose, Esra - 2021
Our paper provides some of the first evidence on the effect of the Head Start funding expansions on program inputs. We take advantage of the county-year variation in funding increases that were implemented due to a number of legislated policy changes in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s....
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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents
Ha Trong Nguyen; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022
Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in … educational activities and less time on physical and media related activities. These gender gaps in time allocation appear at very … young ages and widen overtime. We provide novel evidence that gender differentials in time investment are quantitatively …
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Household Composition and Gender Differences in Parental Time Investments
Bibler, Andrew - 2020
activities with their child, change differentially by child gender following a transition from a two-parent to single … previously documented gender gaps in non-cognitive skills for those in single-mother households. Boys lose an estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852114
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What drives paternity leave : financial incentives or flexibility?
Ziegler, Lennart; Bamieh, Omar - 2023
Despite changing gender norms, few fathers decide to take parental leave after the birth of a child, and when they do …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500606
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Challenges and trajectories of fiscal policy and PFM reform in CEE/CIS
Andjelkovic, Branka; Čubrik, Aleksandr; Dąbrowski, Marek - 2010
The purpose of this study is to provide an overview of fiscal policies and PFM reforms in 7 countries in the Western Balkans and 12 countries in the CIS, including major macroeconomic and poverty trends, fiscal policy, the size and role of the public sector, public expenditure management and its...
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Sharper Axes, Lower Taxes - Big Steps to a Smaller State
Booth, Philip - 2011
The government's 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review was anything but comprehensive. The cuts to government spending were modest, and large swathes of state activity were barely touched. Britain will remain a heavily regulated, high-tax, high-spend economy. Instead of totally reviewing the...
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Federal Aid-to-State Programs Top 1,100
Edwards, Chris - 2013
The federal government has a large and growing presence in state and local policy activities. This rising intervention has been facilitated by “grants-in-aid,” which are programs that combine federal subsidies with topdown regulations to micromanage state and local affairs. A new analysis...
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Faux Federalism
Hurst, Amanda - 2021
This Article exposes a misapplication of federalism as the driving force behind the Supreme Court's extreme narrowing of the 42 U.S.C. § 1983 remedy for beneficiaries of federal-state cooperative spending programs. Originally, the Court applied a presumption, via § 1983's straightforward...
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The quality of public finances
Thöne, Michael - 2022
infrastructure investment, human capital investment (education, health, family policy, gender policy) and spending on natural capital …
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