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Gender, Comparative Advantage and Labour Market Activity in Immigrant Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Crossley, Thomas - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2001

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Improving the Modeling of Couples' Labour Supply

Breunig, Robert; Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Gong, Xiaodong - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

We study the work hours of Australian couples, using a neoclassical labour-supply model in which couples choose from a small, realistic set of possible wife-husband working hour combinations. We introduce three improvements to this standard model. First, we allow partners' preferences about...

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Early Child Care and Child Development: For Whom it Works and Why

Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - CESifo - 2012

Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to … (children’s age, birth weight and socio-economic background), but less so with respect to unobserved determinants of selection …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010599725

Sports and Child Development

Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Steinmayr, Andreas - CESifo - 2011

-curricular activities, on children’s skill development. Our results indicate positive effects: both cognitive skills, measured by school …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367395

Can't Buy Mommy's Love? Universal Childcare and Children's Long-Term Cognitive Development

Felfe, Christina; Nollenberger, Natalia; … - CESifo - 2013

What happens to children’s long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year … difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable improvements in children’s reading and math skills at age 15, as well as in … grade progression during primary and secondary school. Effects are driven by girls and disadvantaged children. …

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After-School Care and Parents' Labor Supply

Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Thiemann, Petra - CESifo - 2013

Does after-school care provision promote mothers’ employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of schoolchildren? We address this question by exploiting variation in cantonal (state) regulations of after-school care provision in Switzerland. To establish exogeneity of...

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Reassessing the Role of Child Care Costs in the Work and Care Decisions of Australian Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Liu, Amy; Mitchell, Deborah - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1999

This paper reassesses how the costs associated with child care influence Australian families’ decisions about their work and child care arrangements. Using data from the Negotiating the Life Course Survey, we suggest that the cost of care may not be an important barrier to labour market...

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Getting Ahead: The Determinants of Payoffs to Internal Promotion for Young U.S. Men and Women

Cobb-Clark, Deborah - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2001

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