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Remote work and the effects on secondary childcare
In spring 2020, stay at home orders due to the COVID-19 pandemic forced many Americans to work remotely. Simultaneously, these orders shut down...
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Subsidizing private childcare in a universal regime
All families in Finland have the freedom to choose between subsidized home care, universal public childcare, and private childcare. We study the...
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Do means-tested childcare subsidies discourage work?
We examine how means-tested childcare subsidies affect parental labor supply. Using the introduction of reduced childcare prices for low-income...
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Grandparental childcare, family allowances and retirement policies
The paper uses an OLG model to study the interaction between policies designed to ensure the sustainability of the pension system, i.e. child...
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Does an urban childcare policy improve the nurturing environment in a city?
Previous theoretical studies on economic development and demographics have discussed the impacts of childcare policies but have not specifically...
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Where can childcare expansion increase maternal labor supply? A comparison of quasi-experimental estimates from seven countries
The estimated effect of childcare availability on maternal labor supply varies highly in previous single-country estimates. We provide comparable...
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Fertility cost, grandparental childcare, and female employment
This paper considers the role of grandparental childcare in explaining China’s extraordinarily high female labor market participation rate and low...
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Neither backlash nor convergence: dynamics of intra-couple childcare division during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany
Using unique (bi)monthly panel data (IAB-HOPP) covering the immediate postlockdown period from June to August 2020, as well as the subsequent period...
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Paid childcare leave, fertility, and female labor supply in South Korea
We consider the effects of a paid childcare leave subsidy on maternal behavior in South Korea using a difference-in-difference design and a fertility...
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Who is doing the chores and childcare in dual-earner couples during the COVID-19 era of working from home?
In 2020–21, parents’ work-from-home days increased three-and-a-half-fold following the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns compared to 2015–19. At...
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How Employed Mothers in Australia Find Time for Both Market Work and Childcare
Time use studies find that employed mothers reduce their parental childcare time by much less than an hour for every hour they spend in market work....
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Non cognitive skills and childcare attendance
In this paper, we analyze the impact of formal childcare attendance at ages 0–2 on children’s attitudes toward schooling and on social behavior at...
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Social externalities, endogenous childcare costs, and fertility choice
We reconcile the steep decline in fertility rates during the demographic transition with the fertility rebound observed in recent decades in...
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Nuclear Power, Childcare, and Higher Education
Three of the topics which Bo Södersten dealt within his newspaper articles after 1988 were the issue of nuclear power, the organization of the public...
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Regional differences in childcare environment, urbanization, and fertility decline
We theoretically demonstrate that a decline in an economy’s total fertility rate occurs with urbanization. If there are no regional differences in...
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The impact of minimum wage on parental time allocation to children: evidence from the American Time Use Survey
In this study, using data from the 2003–2019 American Time Use Survey (ATUS), we investigate whether changes in the minimum wage have impacted time...
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Access to universal childcare and its effect on maternal employment
Subsidized childcare is a key instrument to support maternal employment in most OECD countries. Using a major reform implemented in Luxembourg in...
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Does signaling childcare support on job applications reduce the motherhood penalty?
There is substantial evidence that due to perceived childcare obligations, mothers are disadvantaged in labor markets. To what extent can childcare...
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Working parents, financial insecurity, and childcare: mental health in the time of COVID-19 in the UK
The COVID-19 pandemic and the policy measures to control its spread—lockdowns, physical distancing, and social isolation—have coincided with the...
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Time use, college attainment, and the working-from-home revolution
I demonstrate that the profound change in working from home (WFH) in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic is concentrated among individuals with college...
