threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is …

childcare. This trend has raised concerns, and an intense debate in several countries has focused on the effectiveness of … childcare policies. …

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 …