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Early child care and maternal employment : empirical evidence from Germany
Zimmert, Franziska - 2019
This paper examines the effect of an expansion of subsidized early child care on maternal labor market outcomes. It contributes to the literature by analyzing, apart from the employment rate and agreed working hours, preferred working hours. Using the legal claim for subsidized child care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961210
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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave : Exploiting Forty Years of U.S. Policy Variation
Flores, Andrea M.; Gayle, George-Levi; Hincapié, Andrés - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
the likelihood of the households having childcare expenses. Finally, consistent with the tradeoffs of policy design, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437042
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High-Quality Early-Childhood Education at Scale : Evidence from a Multisite Randomized Trial
Dougan, William R.; García García-Menéndez, Jorge Luis; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We offer a new analysis of a large-scale trial of an early-childhood education program that targeted premature, low-birthweight children. This targeting heavily oversampled twins, whose outcomes differed significantly from singletons'. Singletons' gains in short-term cognition and age-18...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372451
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Cash-for-care, or caring for cash? : the effects of a home care subsidy on maternal employment, childcare choices, and children's development
Collischon, Matthias; Kühnle, Daniel; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2020
How parents respond to changes in the price of childcare is an important, though not fully understood, public policy … outcomes, childcare choices, and children's development. We examine a German reform from 2013 which introduced a home care … subsidy of initially 100 Euros per month for families who do not use subsidised childcare. Exploiting a date-of-birth cut …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012259719
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Care-arrangements and parental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
Zoch, Gundula; Bächmann, Ann-Christin; Vicari, Basha - 2020
, who were affected by the closure of schools and institutional child-care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. By …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317652
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Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development : Experimental Evidence from Brazil
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Barros, Ricardo Paes de; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This study examines the impact of publicly provided daycare for children aged 0-3 on outcomes of children and their caregivers over the course of seven years after enrollment into daycare. At the end of 2007, the city of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil used a lottery to assign children to limited...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462701
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Paying Moms to Stay Home : Short and Long Run Effects on Parents and Children
Gruber, Jonathan; Kosonen, Tuomas; Huttunen, Kristiina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the impacts of a policy designed to reward mothers who stay at home rather than join the labor force when their children are under age three. We use regional and over time variation to show that the Finnish Home Care Allowance (HCA) decreases maternal employment in both the short and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226128
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Welfare Reform and the Quality of Young Children's Home Environments
Kalil, Ariel; Corman, Hope; Dave, Dhaval; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This study investigates effects of welfare reform in the U.S., a major policy shift that increased employment of low-income mothers and reliance on their own earnings instead of cash assistance through the welfare system, on the quality of the home environments they provide for their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362060