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Does Professional Development of Preschool Teachers Improve Child Socio-Emotional Outcomes?

Jensen, Bente; Jensen, Peter; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

From 2011 to 2013 a randomized controlled trial has been run in Danish preschools to obtain evidence on improvements of early childhood education by providing training to the preschool teachers. The purpose of the intervention is to improve child socio-emotional outcomes (measured by SDQ),...

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Child Care, Maternal Employment and Persistence: A Natural Experiment from Spain

Nollenberger, Natalia; Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

-low fertility and female labor force participation rates. This paper analyzes the effects of a large-scale provision of publicly …

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Exploring the Impacts of Public Childcare on Mothers and Children in Italy: Does Rationing Play a Role?

Brilli, Ylenia; Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children's scholastic achievements. We use a newly available dataset containing individual standardized test scores of pupils attending second grade of primary school in 2008-09 in...

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The Impact of Pre-school on Adolescents' Outcomes: Evidence from a Recent English Cohort

Apps, Patricia; Mendolia, Silvia; Walker, Ian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates the relationship between attendance at nursery school and children's outcomes in adolescence. In particular, we are interested in child cognitive development at ages 11, 14 and 16, intentions towards tertiary education, economic activity in early adulthood, and in a group...

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Economic Conditions and Child Abuse

Lindo, Jason M.; Schaller, Jessamyn; Hansen, Benjamin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Although a huge literature spanning several disciplines documents an association between poverty and child abuse, researchers have not found persuasive evidence that economic downturns increase abuse, despite their impacts on family income. In this paper, we address this seeming contradiction....

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Gender, Time-Use, and Fertility Recovery in Industrialized Countries

García-Manglano, Javier; Nollenberger, Natalia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates – around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …

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After-School Care and Parents' Labor Supply

Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Thiemann, Petra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Early Child Care and Child Outcomes: The Role of Grandparents

Del Boca, Daniela; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In this paper, we focus on the impact of early grandparents' care on child cognitive outcomes, in the short and medium term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children looked after in a formal care centre, children cared by grandparents (as well as parents) are...

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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children

Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new 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...

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The Timing of Maternal Work and Time with Children

Stewart, Jay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

I use data from the American Time Use Survey to examine how maternal employment affects when during the day that mothers of pre-school-age children spend doing enriching childcare and whether they adjust their schedules to spend time with their children at more-desirable times of day. I find...

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