Adieu Rabenmutter: The effect of culture on fertility, female labour supply, the gender wage gap and childcare
A presentation and discussion of a cross-national model of the relationships among fertility, female labor force participation, child care provision, and the gender wage gap
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California subsidized childcare characteristic study
A study of the characteristics of families and children served by California's subsidized child care programs and the child care expenses of families receiving subsidized care, based on an analysis of administrative data and case studies in 3 counties
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California subsidized childcare characteristic study: Executive summary
A summary of a study of the characteristics of families and children served by California's subsidized child care programs and the child care expenses of families receiving subsidized care, based on an analysis of administrative data and case studies in 3 counties
Executive Summary
Can child care policy encourage employment and fertility?: Evidence from a structural model
An estimation of the influence of child care policies on female employment and pregnancy rates, based on data on over 11,000 households in Germany in 2006
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Childcare Affordability Pilots (CAP09): 100% Costs, Disabled Children and Actual Costs pilots evaluation summary
A summary of evaluations of three pilot child care tax credit programs in England
Executive Summary
Childcare Affordability Pilots (CAP09): 100% Costs Pilot: The importance of cost as a driver of family decisions about work and childcare: A data analysis report
An evaluation of a pilot program in England to pay 100 percent of out-of-work families' child care expenses that examines the impact of an offer to enroll in the program on families' employment and child care outcomes
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Childcare Affordability Pilots (CAP09): 100% Costs Pilot: The importance of cost as a driver of family decisions about work and childcare: A data analysis report [Executive summary]
A summary of an evaluation of a pilot program in England to pay 100 percent of out-of-work families' child care expenses that examines the impact of an offer to enroll in the program on families' employment and child care outcomes
Executive Summary
Childcare Affordability Pilots (CAP09): Disabled Children's Pilot: The importance of cost as a driver of family decisions about work and childcare: A data analysis report
An evaluation of a pilot program in England to increase the child care tax credit amount allowed for families with disabled children that examines the impact of an offer to enroll in the program on families' employment and child care outcomes
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Childcare Affordability Pilots (CAP09): Disabled Children's Pilot: The importance of cost as a driver of family decisions about work and childcare: A data analysis report [Executive summary]
A summary of an evaluation of a pilot program in England to increase the child care tax credit amount allowed for families with disabled children that examines the impact of an offer to enroll in the program on families' employment and child care outcomes
Executive Summary
Child care choices of low-income working families
A study of low-income parents' child care decisionmaking and the influence of family characteristics and contextual community factors on their decisions, based on interviews with community experts and stakeholders and in-depth qualitative interviews with parents in 86 families in Providence, Rhode Island, and Seattle-White Center, Washington
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Childcare: Failing to meet the needs of working parents
A discussion of parents' work schedules and child care use in the United Kingdom and of issues related to accessing affordable, flexible child care
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Childcare: Failing to meet the needs of working parents [Executive summary]
A summary of a discussion of parents' work schedules and child care use in the United Kingdom and of issues related to accessing affordable, flexible child care
Executive Summary
Child care, maternal employment and persistence: A natural experiment from Spain
A study of the effects of subsidized child care on maternal labor force participation in Spain, based on an analysis of national labor force data and the staggered regional implementation of universal child care for 3 year-old children
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Child care voucher and labour market behaviour: Experimental evidence from Finland
An examination of the relationship between the introduction of private child care vouchers in 1994 and both labor force participation and use of private and public child care by mothers between 1995 and 1997, based on data from 3,433 children from birth through 6-years-old in Finland
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Contextual risk, maternal negative emotionality, and the negative emotion dysregulation of preschool children from economically disadvantaged families
A study of the relationships among preschool teachers' reports of child negative emotion dysregulation, maternal negative emotionality, and both family stability and neighborhood characteristics, based on a survey of the mothers and teachers of 113 children at an urban Head Start center
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Current Population Survey, October 2010: School Enrollment and Internet Use Supplement
This data collection is comprised of responses from two sets of survey questionnaires, the basic Current Population Survey (CPS) and a survey on the topics of School Enrollment and Internet Use in the United States, which was administered as a supplement to the 2010 October CPS. The Census Bureau and the National Center for Education Statistics jointly sponsored the supplemental questions for October.
The CPS, administered monthly, is a labor force survey providing current estimates of the economic status and activities of the population of the United States, for the week prior to the survey. Specifically, the CPS provides estimates of total employment (both farm and nonfarm), nonfarm self-employed persons, domestics, and unpaid helpers in nonfarm family enterprises, wage and salaried employees, and estimates of total unemployment.
The October 2010 supplemental survey queried respondents on school enrollment for all persons in the household aged three years and over. Supplement data includes information collected on current grade at public or private school, whether currently attending college full- or part-time at a two- or four-year institution, year last attended a regular school, year graduated from high school, grade retention, and whether any business, vocational, technical, trade, or correspondence courses were ever taken. Respondents were also queried on Internet and computer use, particularly if members of the household use the Internet, and how access to the Internet is obtained.
Demographic variables include age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, veteran status, educational attainment, occupation, and income.
Data Sets
Difference's by mother's education in the effect of childcare on child obesity
A study of the mediating role time spent in child care plays in the relationship of maternal employment to child obesity, based on an analysis of data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) Core and Child Development Supplement
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Does family-friendly policy matter?: Testing its impact on turnover and performance
A study of the relationship between four types of family friendly policies--child care subsidies, paid leave for family care, telecommuting, and alternative work schedules--and federal agency's performance and turnover rates, based on data from 2004 and 2006 Federal Human Capital Surveys and over 31 individual agencies' Performance and Accountability Reports for fiscal years 2005 and 2007
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Estimating net child care price elasticities of partnered women with pre-school children using a discrete structural labour supply-child care model
A study of the relationship of changes in families' child care expenses to changes in maternal labor supply in Australia, based on an analysis of data from the 2005 through 2007 waves of an annual panel survey of approximately 7,000 households
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Estimating net child care price elasticities of partnered women with pre-school children using a discrete structural labour supply-child care model [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of the relationship of changes in families' child care expenses to changes in maternal labor supply in Australia, based on an analysis of data from the 2005 through 2007 waves of an annual panel survey of approximately 7,000 households
Executive Summary
An exploratory study of the impacts of an employer-supported child care
A study of relationships among reported employee experiences with an employer-sponsored child care voucher program, satisfaction with child care, and perceived of benefits to work-life balance, based on data from 776 employees with children at Cornell University in Ithaca
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Exploring the impacts of public childcare on mothers and children in Italy: Does rationing play a role?
A study of the relationship of publicly funded child care availability to mothers' labor force participation and children's language skills in Italy
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Exploring the impacts of public childcare on mothers and children in Italy: Does rationing play a role?
A study of the relationship of publicly funded child care availability to mothers' labor force participation and children's language skills in Italy
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Family labor participation and child care decisions: The role of grannies
A study of child care provided by grandmothers in 10 European countries and its relationship to labor force participation of grandmothers and their children, based on an analysis of data from 1,689 grandmothers between 50 and 65 years old with grandchildren under age 13 from the longitudinal, cross-national Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
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Family proximity, childcare, and women's labor force attachment
We show that close geographical proximity to mothers or mothers-in-law has a substantial positive effect on the labor supply of married women with young children. We argue that the mechanism through which proximity increases labor supply is the availability of childcare. We interpret availability broadly enough to include not only regular scheduled childcare during work hours but also an insurance aspect of proximity (e.g., a mother or mother-in-law who can provide irregular or unanticipated childcare). Using two large datasets, the National Survey of Families and Households and the public use files of the U.S. Census, we find that the predicted probability of employment and labor force participation is 4-10 percentage points higher for married women with young children living in close proximity to their mothers or their mothers-in-law compared with those living further away. (author abstract)
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