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Who takes the child to the doctor? : mom, pretty much all of the time

Daly, Moira; Groes, Fane - In: Applied economics letters 24 (2017) 17, pp. 1267-1276

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How do children affect parents' allocation of time?

Giménez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Marcén, Miriam; Ortega, … - In: Applied economics letters 17 (2010) 16/18, pp. 1715-1719

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Mothers' time spent in care of their children and market work : a simultaneous model with attitudes as instruments

Howie, Peter; Wicks, John; Fitzgerald, John M.; … - In: Applied economics letters 13 (2006) 8, pp. 503-506

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Who Benefits from Universal Child Care? Estimating Marginal Returns to Early Child Care Attendance

Cornelissen, Thomas - 2018

In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany by exploiting the exogenous variation in attendance caused by a reform that led to a large staggered expansion across municipalities. Drawing on novel administrative data from...

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Birth Order and Delinquency : Evidence from Denmark and Florida

Breining, Sanni - 2017

Birth order has been found to have a surprisingly large influence on educational attainment, yet much less is known about the role of birth order on delinquency outcomes such as disciplinary problems in school, juvenile delinquency, and adult crime: outcomes that carry significant negative...

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Extracurricular Educational Programs and School Readiness : Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment with Preschool Children

Makles, Anna - 2016

This paper adds to the literature on extracurricular early childhood education and child development by exploiting unique data on an educational project in Germany, the Junior University (JU). Utilizing a quasi-experimental study design, we estimate the causal short-run effect of JU enrollment...

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Parental Leave, (In)Formal Childcare and Long-Term Child Outcomes

Danzer, Natalia - 2017

eligibility for extended parental leave and geographical variation in formal childcare. We find that estimated treatment effects … on long-term child outcomes differ substantially according to the availability of formal childcare and the mother … capital outcomes only if the reform induces a replacement of informal childcare with maternal care. We conclude that care …

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Taxation and Parental Time Allocation Under Different Assumptions on Altruism

Casarico, Alessandra - 2014

In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...

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