suggest that the pandemic not only affected the short-term allocation of housework and childcare, but also reversed recent …

offered infant-toddler (ages 0–3) and preschool (ages 3–6) programs. The control group either didn't receive formal childcare … formal childcare. Relative to not receiving formal care, the Reggio Approach significantly boosts outcomes related to … exposed to alternative forms of childcare do not yield strong patterns of positive and significant effects. This suggests that …

This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … second grade of primary school in 2008-09 in conjunction with data on public childcare availability. Public childcare … account rationing in public childcare access and the functioning of the childcare market. Our estimates indicate that …

exposed to two informational treatments on the positive consequences of formal childcare on children future educational …

Childcare arrangements are key in women's ability to juggle motherhood and working outside the home. As such, the study … of the access to childcare and its use is of great policy relevance. We focus on a particular kind of informal childcare …, the one provided by grandparents. Empirically, assessing the effect of grandparental childcare is not an easy task due to …

jointly and, in addition to personal characteristics, include variables related to the childcare system, parental leave … educational levels, childcare and optional parental leaves have a larger impact on the fertility and participation decisions of … women at lower educational levels. -- Employment ; fertility ; childcare ; parental leave …

The objective of this research is to explore the impact of early childcare on child cognitive outcomes. We utilize the … childcare as well as several child outcomes. In our empirical analysis, we estimate the association between formal childcare and … child cognitive outcomes, allowing the effect of formal childcare to be different for children from different family …