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Women experience significant reductions in labor market income following the birth of children, while their male …
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We study the impact of public child care on mothers' career trajectories, focusing on qualitative dimensions of career choices. Using an event study approach, we find that child care helps mothers to return to the labor market more quickly and that this effect is mainly due to an increase in...
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low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children … to be -7.1 percentage points. However, we find no effect of additional children on female employment among families with …
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important dimensions of school and parental input decisions: the parents' choice of which school attendance area to live in, and … the mother's decision to work as a proxy for maternal time directly devoted to child education. Parents receive utility … employment decisions, parents take into account the distribution of impacts of these decisions on their child's educational …
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light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare … and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that public daycare and informal … childcare are complements. Female labor force participation declines and the response is strongest for single parents and low …
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light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare … and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that public daycare and informal … childcare are complements. Female labor force participation declines and the response ist strongest for single parents and low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107258
light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare … and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that public daycare and informal … childcare are complements. Female labor force participation declines and the response is strongest for single parents and low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108224
families' child care costs. The nonrefundable federal CDCC is available to working families with children younger than 13 years … increases annual paid child care participation by 4–5 percent among households with children younger than 13 years old. I also … very young children suggest that CDCC benefits may generate long-run earnings gains …
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We study the effect of family income and maternal hours worked on child development. Our instrumental variable analysis suggests different results for cognitive and behavioral development. An additional $1,000 in family income improves cognitive development by 4.4 percent of a standard deviation...
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causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and … penalty. Test score effects are positive for children aged 4-7 (substitution from grandparental to maternal care), and … negative for children aged 11-12 (substitution from grandparental to formal childcare). …
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