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In Germany, around 94 percent of children between the ages of three and six attend a day care center. Regarding the … remaining six percent, many experts have speculated that children, primarily those from socio-economically disadvantaged … present study is one of the first representative studies to look at preschool children three and older who do not attend a day …
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This paper combines multiple sources of information on early childhood development in a unified model for analysis of a wide range of early childhood policy interventions. We develop a model of child care in which households decide both the quantities and qualities of maternal and non-maternal...
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For decades, the debate on using DDT to control malaria has focused on the balance between immediate public health gains and ecological costs, ignoring DDT's long-term harmful effects on humans. Using data from the large-scale indoor residual spraying of DDT that took place in Taiwan in the...
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This paper presents results from a randomized evaluation of a home visiting program for disadvantaged first-time mothers and their families implemented in three German federal states. I analysis the impact of the intervention on maternal employment, school attendance, child care use, fertility,...
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, this paper analyzes the relation between preschool care and the well-being of children and adolescents in Germany. It also … children. Our findings, based on data from the German Health Interview and Examination Survey of Children and Adolescents …, suggest that children who have experienced child care have a slightly lower well-being overall. For migrant children, however …
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Economic incentives have a powerful effect on the work behavior of women with children in Kenya. In addition to … increasing the future productivity of children, government subsidies of low-cost early childhood development programs would … children aged three to seven (roughly 20 percent of children in that age group) in Kenya in 1995. The number of child care …
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direct effect. This is true for the full sample of children, for boys and girls and for children in households whose mother …
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We develop and estimate a model of child care markets that endogenizes both demand and supply. On the demand side, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child-care decisions within a static, unitary household model. On the supply side, child care providers make entry, price,...
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