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Reproductive technology and the child care sector : how access to oral contraception and abortion shaped workforce composition and quality

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2025

The composition and quality of the child care workforce may be uniquely sensitive to changes in the complementarities between home production and market work. This paper examines whether the expansion of oral contraceptives and abortion access throughout the 1960's and 1970's influenced the...

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The effect of the minimum wage on childcare establishments

Sadowski, Katharine C. - 2025

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Universal daycare and mothers' working lifetime

Sander, Sarah - 2024

This paper examines the effects of universal daycare on mothers' labor force participation, full-time employment, and earnings over their working lifetime. I exploit differential access to daycare caused by a roll-out of daycare centers across Denmark in combination with rich administrative...

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Universal daycare and mothers' working lifetime

Sander, Sarah - 2024

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Persistent low inequality despite compositional shifts in Austria

Halla, Martin; Weber, Andrea - 2024

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Persistent low inequality despite compositional shifts in Austria

Halla, Martin; Weber, Andrea - 2024

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Effects of center-based child care on disadvantaged children : evidence from a randomized research design

Herbst, Chris M. - 2024

This paper uses the random assignment of poor families to treatment and control conditions in the Comprehensive Child Development Program (CCDP) to isolate the causal effect of center-based child care enrollment on child well-being. Operating throughout the early-1990's, the CCDP demonstration...

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Effects of Center-Based Child Care on Disadvantaged Children: Evidence from a Randomized Research Design

Herbst, Chris M. - 2024

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The declining relative quality of the child care workforce

Herbst, Chris M. - 2024

Although it is widely acknowledged that high-skilled teachers are integral to service quality and young children's well-being in child care settings, little is known about the qualifications and skills of the child care workforce. This paper combines data from multiple sources to provide a...

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The Declining Relative Quality of the Child Care Workforce

Herbst, Chris M. - 2024

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Discrimination in universal social programs? : a nationwide field experiment on access to child care

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024 - This version: 04.03.2024

Although explicit discrimination in access to social programs is typically prohibited, more subtle forms of discrimination prior to the formal application process may still exist. Unveiling this phenomenon, we provide the first causal evidence of discrimination against migrants seeking child...

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Effects of child-care vouchers on price, quantity, and provider turnover in private-care markets

Lee, Won Fy; Sojourner, Aaron; Davis, Elizabeth E.; … - 2025

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Effects of child care vouchers on price, quantity, and provider turnover in private care markets

Lee, Won Fy; Sojourner, Aaron; Davis, Elizabeth E.; … - 2024

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Does information about inequality and discrimination in early child care affect policy preferences?

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024

We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n ≈ 4, 800). We observe strong misperceptions about migrant-native inequalities in early child care that vary by...

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Does information about inequality and discrimination in early child care affect policy preferences?

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024

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Does information about inequality and discrimination in early child care affect policy preferences?

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024

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Does information about inequality and discrimination in early child care affect policy preferences?

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024

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Does information about inequality and discrimination in early child care affect policy preferences?

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024

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Does information about inequality and discrimination in early child care affect policy preferences?

Hermes, Henning; Legetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024

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Does information about inequality and discrimination in early child care affect policy preferences?

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024

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Application barriers and the socioeconomic gap in child care enrollment

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Peter, Frauke; … - 2025

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Application barriers and the socioeconomic gap in child care enrollment

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Peter, Frauke; … - 2024

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Application barriers and the socioeconomic gap in child care enrollment

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Peter, Frauke; … - 2024

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Early child care, maternal labor supply, and gender equality : a randomized controlled trial

Hermes, Henning; Krauß, Marina; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2024

We provide experimental evidence that enabling access to universal early child care increases maternal labor supply and promotes gender equality among families with lower socioeconomic status (SES). Our intervention offers information and customized help with child care applications, leading to...

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Early child care, maternal labor supply, and gender equality : a randomized controlled trial

Hermes, Henning; Krauß, Marina; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2024

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Childcare, work from home and the evolution of mental health in times of COVID-19 : evidence from the Netherlands

Siflinger, Bettina; Paffenholz, Michaela; Seitz, Sebastian - 2024

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Twenty-five hours in a day : on job flexibility and the intrahousehold allocation of time and money

Kesternich, Iris; Vermeulen, Frederic; Wintzéus, Alexander - 2024

Flexible work schedules and telecommuting may help to improve the combination of work and family. An open question is whether job flexibility can increase the well-being of the children, which depends on parental time spent on childcare. We propose a rich collective model describing the...

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Twenty-five hours in a day: on job flexibility and the intrahousehold allocation of time and money

Kesternich, Iris; Vermeulen, Frederic; Wintzéus, Alexander - 2024 - Version: November 30, 2024

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Twenty-five hours in a day : on job flexibility and the intrahousehold allocation of time and money

Kesternich, Iris; Vermeulen, Frederic; Wintzéus, Alexander - 2024

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Information about inequality in early child care reduces polarization in policy preferences

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024

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Information about inequality in early child care reduces polarization in policy preferences

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024 - This version: 05.10.2024

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The long-term effects of charity nurseries : evidence from early 20th century New York

Ager, Philipp; Malein, Viktor - 2024

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The long-term effects of charity nurseries : evidence from early 20th century New York

Ager, Philipp; Malein, Viktor - 2024

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Closing the gender gap : promoting labour market participation

Harris, Jorgen M.; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2024

In many countries, a significant share of the gender earnings gap stems not only from firm's practices, or self-selection into lower productivity jobs, but also from a lower participation among women. Inactivity around the age of motherhood is frequent including in the most advanced countries,...

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Off to a slow start : which workplace policies can limit gender pay gaps across firm tenure?

Kronberg, Anne-Kathrin; Gerlach, Anna - 2024

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No lasting increase in the gender care gap in Germany after the coronavirus pandemic

Jessen, Jonas; Kinne, Lavinia; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2024

The gender care gap, i.e., the difference between the amount of unpaid care work-such as childcare and housework-performed between men and women is comparatively high in Germany: Women take on much more unpaid care work than men. This gap increases consistently when starting a family. At the...

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How job attractiveness is shaped by employer-provided childcare arrangements

El Haj, Morien; Moens, Eline; Verhofstadt, Elsy; Van … - 2026

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How job attractiveness is shaped by employer-provided childcare arrangements

El Haj, Morien; Moens, Eline; Verhofstadt, Elsy; Van … - 2026

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How institutions and local contexts shape the child penalty : evidence from Italy's public and private sectors

Biasi, Paola; De Paola, Maria - 2026

This paper investigates the labour market consequences of motherhood in Italy, with a focus on how institutional and local contexts shape the child penalty. Using administrative data from the Italian National Social Security Institute (INPS), we track the labour market trajectories of mothers in...

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Remote work, firm technology, and the spatial economy : generations, care, and the normalized quadratic approach

Shimizu, Chihiro - 2026

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Are taxes or user-fees more popular among politicians? : the case of childcare

Breyer, Friedrich; Sterba, Maj-Britt - 2026

How shall publicly provided excludable goods be financed - by general taxation or user fees? The general conclusion of the existing literature is that exclusive tax financing is neither efficient nor desirable under widely shared distributive goals. A striking example is childcare because here...

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Are taxes or user-fees more popular among politicians? : the case of childcare

Breyer, Friedrich; Sterba, Maj-Britt - 2024

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Kindergarten and career comebacks for mothers : is access to public school enough?

Wikle, Jocelyn; Wilson, Riley - 2026

Over the last 70 years, there has been a dramatic increase in female labor supply. However, gender gaps in employment trajectories remain, in part because the role of childrearing has largely fallen upon women. Providing more publicly funded childcare could relax these constraints, which may...

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Early learning across decades : advances in measuring head start effectiveness

Gibbs, Chloe - 2026

The Head Start program, launched in 1965 and targeted to children from disadvantaged backgrounds, remains the largest early childhood care and education (ECE) program in the United States and the only one deployed at the federal level. As such, the Head Start literature spans several decades and...

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Early learning across decades : advances in measuring Head Start effectiveness

Gibbs, Chloe R. - 2026

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More hours, more work : head start expansions boost maternal employment

Gibbs, Chloe; Kose, Esra; Rosales-Rueda, Maria F. - 2026

Women's employment remains highly sensitive to childcare constraints, making childcare availability a critical lever for supporting mothers' labor force attachment. We study the effects of expanded full-day programming in Head Start, using the 2016 federal funding initiative that targeted...

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More Hours, More Work : Head Start Expansions Boost Maternal Employment

Gibbs, Chloe; Kose, Esra; Rosales-Rueda, Maria F. - 2026

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Ganztagsbetreuung für Grundschulkinder : in Westdeutschland ist noch ein Ausbau nötig : eine Betrachtung der aktuellen Lage sowie der voraussichtlichen Ausbaubedarfe bis zum Schuljahr 2029/2030 in den einzelnen Bundesländern

Geis-Thöne, Wido - 2026 - Stand: Februar 2026

Ab dem Schuljahr 2029/2030 wird dieser dann in allen Jahrgangsstufen der Grundschulen gelten. Sämtliche ostdeutschen Länder und Hamburg werden diesen ohne weiteren Ausbau ihrer Betreuungsinfrastrukturen erfüllen können. Zwar gibt es hier noch kleine Lücken zwischen den von den Eltern...

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Quality at Scale : Advancing Viet Nam's Early Childhood Education and Care System

World Bank - 2026

Viet Nam’s investment in its youngest generation is fundamentally an investment in the country’s future human capital. Today, over 10 million Vietnamese children under age 6 (with another one million expected in the next five years) will reach working age by 2040. This cohort is projected to...

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Fertility and family leave polices in Germany : optimal policy design in a dynamic frameworK

Wang, Hanna - 2026

I develop and estimate a life-cycle discrete-choice model of fertility and female labor supply to study the optimal design of a range of child-related policies. First, I examine two German reforms that introduced wage-contingent parental leave payments and expanded access to low-cost public...

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The effect of longer maternal care on children's occupation choices

Sinani, Sofiana - 2026

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The impact of Malta's free childcare scheme on female employment

Maltseva, Natalia Bezzina - 2026

This study evaluates the impact of Malta's 2014 childcare reform, a universal Free Childcare Scheme for children aged 3 months to 3 years, on female employment. Using a difference-in-differences (DD) framework and matched DD models, I find that the reform may have increased the probability of...

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Characteristics of child care workers who claimed the Canada emergency response benefit in 2020

Guèvremont, Anne - 2026

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Life-cycle effects of public childcare : evidence on children and their parents

Silliman, Mikko; Mäkinen, Juuso - 2026

This paper provides large-scale evidence linking the economic effects of childcare programs to social skills measured in adulthood. We examine Finland's first national public childcare program, and document that it increased parental labor supply - through retirement - while reducing the...

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Life-cycle effects of public childcare : evidence on children and their parents

Silliman, Mikko; Mäkinen, Juuso - 2026

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Life-cycle effects of public childcare : evidence on children and their parents

Silliman, Mikko; Mäkinen, Juuso - 2025

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Labor supply when parents are in need of care

Lizardi, Eduardo Ramirez; Fevang, Elisabeth; Kverndokk, … - 2026

Using Norwegian administrative register data, we show that having a lone parent in the terminal stage of life has a small negative effect on the offspring's labor supply, both at the extensive and the intensive margins. While the effects at the intensive margin are reversed after the parent's...

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The effects of briefly de-prioritizing work or childcare on Peruvian workers : an experimental and gender-based approach

Fuchs, Rosa María; Lopez-Jurado, Renato - 2026

Currently, both men and women face the challenge of balancing their work and childcare responsibilities, which is not always straightforward. When individuals experience tensions between their work and family life, they are likely to prioritize one over the other, often facing penalties for...

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Unlocking Women’s Entrepreneurship through Childcare Reform

Behr, Daniela Monika; Siegrist, Felicia Norina - 2026

This Brief explores how childcare responsibilities shape women’s entrepreneurial choices and business growth, drawing on data from the Women, Business and the Law project as well as complementary evidence from Bangladesh, Brazil, and Nigeria. Globally, women spend nearly three times as much...

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Workforce quality and early childhood development at scale

Cattan, Sarah; Conti, Gabriella; Farquharson, Christine - 2026

Early childhood programmes frequently lose effectiveness at scale, yet the role of the workforce remains poorly understood. We document substantial heterogeneity in workforce effectiveness in England's national home-visiting programme for first-time teenage mothers, despite a highly-structured...

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Workforce quality and early childhood development at scale

Cattan, Sarah; Conti, Gabriella; Farquharson, Christine - 2026

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Workforce quality and early childhood development at scale

Cattan, Sarah; Conti, Gabriella; Farquharson, Christine - 2026

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The role of kinship networks in childcare at birth : evidence from three Latin American countries

Fernández Soto, Mariana; Escoto, Ana; … - 2026

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Social investment in childcare : exploring women's subjective assessments of work-care balance difficulties

Cizauskaite, Ausra; Collins, Micheál L.; Anderson, Karen M. - 2026

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Fathers' involvement in domestic work and mothers' employment : evidence from bunching

Akesaka, Mika; Kikuchi, Nobuyoshi - 2026

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Fathers' involvement in domestic work and mothers' employment : evidence from bunching

Akesaka, Mika; Kikuchi, Nobuyoshi - 2026

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Early Childhood Education and Care in the Western Balkans : Investing for Children, Families and Jobs

Gomez Tamayo, Sofia; Santos, Indhira Vanessa; Shmis, Tigran - 2026

Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) encompasses publicly regulated services that provide education and childcare for children from birth until the start of primary education. ECEC plays a critical role in fostering children’s cognitive, social, and emotional development, enhancing school...

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Investing in Early Years : Evidence, Challenges, and Policy Directions for Early Childhood Education and Care in Kosovo

Gomez Tamayo, Sofia; Shmis, Tigran - 2026

Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) refers to publicly regulated services that provide education and childcare for children from birth until the start of primary education. ECEC delivers wide‑ranging benefits, including improved cognitive and social development, enhanced school...

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Supporting mothers back to work : experimental evidence on employment, fertility, and child outcomes

Del Boca, Daniela; Favero, Luca; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2026

Many advanced economies face persistently low fertility alongside rapid population ageing, raising concerns about economic sustainability and demographic balance. Addressing these challenges requires both sustained labor market participation among the workingage population and conditions that...

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Housing wealth and labor supply : evidence from geographically-linked microdata

Yang, Xi - 2026

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Intercultural bilingual education and early childhood mathematics learning : RCT evidence from the Mate Raymi program in Quechua Chanka schools in Peru

Hernández-Agramonte, Juan Manuel; Näslund-Hadley, Emma; … - 2026

This article presents an evaluation of Mate Raymi, an educational program designed to strengthen mathematical and ethnomathematical skills among preschool children in Peru. Implemented through audio lessons and complemented with contextualized materials, teacher training, and pedagogical...

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Long-run effects of universal pre-primary education expansion : evidence from Argentina

Berlinski, Samuel G.; Cruces, Guillermo; Galiani, Sebastián - 2026

We study the long-run effects of a large public expansion of pre-primary education in Argentina. Between 1993 and 1999, the federal government financed the construction of new preschool classrooms targeted to departments with low baseline enrollment and high poverty, creating roughly 186,000...

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Work requirements in subsidized child care and maternal labor supply

Van Kippersluis, Hans; Zhang, Hongliang - 2026

This paper investigates how tightening work requirements in subsidized child care affects parental employment. Using Dutch administrative data, we examine a 2012 reform that capped subsidized child care hours at 140% of the hours worked by the lesser-working parent. We identify affected...

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Care for Growth : Making Industrial Jobs Work for Women - Policy Recommendations for Affordable Quality Childcare Near Industrial Parks in Viet Nam

Buchhave, Helle; Nguyen, Cuong Viet; Nguyen, Giang Tam; … - 2026

This report provides the Government of Viet Nam with evidence-based guidance on how to operationalize its existing policy commitments—particularly under the National Labor Code and Decree 105—to expand access to quality, affordable early childhood education and care near industrial parks. It...

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Caring dads? : universal childcare, paternity leave, and fathers' labor supply

Huebener, Mathias; Mahlbacher, Malin K.; Schmitz, Sophia - 2026

We study how expansions of publicly subsidized childcare affect the intra-household allocation of labor supply in early childhood, with a particular focus on fathers. Exploiting variation in the roll-out of childcare places for children under three across German counties, we show that increased...

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