exploits the variation in the timing of interviews across individuals and the fact that childcare declines with the age of … grandchildren. We find that 10 additional hours of childcare per month, a 31 percent increase with respect to the sample average ….9 percentage points for grandfathers. These results suggest that policies that substitute informal with formal childcare can …

quality of these data. This paper investigates whether the secondary childcare questions in the ATUS are measuring the stated … construct alternative estimates that exclude time spent in secondary childcare that is inconsistent with other data collected … during the interview and find that the ATUS measure overestimates secondary childcare by at most 5 percent or about 16 …

A rich strand of the economic literature has been studying the impact of different forms of early childcare on children … of childcare policies in reducing inequality. Instead, heterogeneity of results across gender is less clear-cut. Yet, it … is important to understand how childcare arrangements differently affect boys and girls, to figure out how to boost …

In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We … that expanded childcare for 1-2- year-olds in Norway. Our results reveal a significant increase in the overall employment …

true for college graduates, who tend to have more successful businesses. Access to childcare may also affect their labor … appears that, in response to fewer childcare options, self-employed mothers away from their birth-place work fewer hours …

This paper proposes a dynamic structural model of labour market and childcare choices for couples within a collective … model of decision making. We formalise explicitly the need for childcare as a function of the age structure of the children …-produced childcare to household childcare needs is considered to be a public good within the household, for which preferences are …

This paper organizes and synthesizes the literature on early childhood education and childcare. In it, we go beyond …