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. …

the type of childcare used. Identifying attitude-practice dissonances matters because how they get resolved influences … participation and the use of formal childcare contradict their traditional prenatal attitudes. Women's prenatal earnings have an …

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 …

as childcare and leave policies interaction. The findings from the fixed effects model reveal that childcare coverage for … gap in employment. The impact of the leaves depends, however, on childcare availability: long maternity leaves combined … with high childcare coverage lead to greater employment gap than when the coverage is low. The results do not prove that …

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 …