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Parental Leave, (In)Formal Childcare and Long-Term Child Outcomes [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2017 We provide a novel interpretation of the estimated treatment effects from evaluations of parental leave reforms. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child outcomes and potential mediators. We evaluate a large and generous parental leave extension in Austria exploiting a sharp birthday cutoff-based discontinuity ...
Natalia Danzer +3 more
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Nutrition and oral health in early childhood: associations with formal and informal childcare [PDF]
Public Health Nutrition, 2020 AbstractObjective:To examine associations between childcare type and nutrition and oral health indicators.Design:Cross-sectional data extracted from a longitudinal birth cohort. Parent-completed FFQ and questions regarding oral health and childcare use. The associations between childcare type, classified into four groups: parent care only (PCO), formal
Carpenter, L +5 more
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Informal childcare arrangements: a comparison between Italians and migrants
Genus, 2023 As migrants settle in their destination country, for those who reunited the family or after childbirth childcare becomes a priority. Most studies on migrants’ childcare arrangements have focused on parental use of formal childcare rather than on ...
Eleonora Trappolini +3 more
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Home Alone: Exploring Childcare Options to Remove Barriers to Second Childbearing in Belarus
Social Inclusion, 2022 This study investigates the relationship between childcare usage and parents’ intentions to have a second child in Belarus. Previous research has established that low fertility in Belarus can be primarily explained by falling second birth rates. However,
Kamila Ishchanova
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How involved are parents in their child's early years setting's food decisions and practices?
SSM: Qualitative Research in Health, 2022 As childhood obesity and poor nutrition rates in England continue to rise, parents and childcare practitioners have key partnership roles in ensuring young children have healthy balanced diets.
Lorraine Williams +2 more
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Urban Governance, 2022 Social accountability for water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services is a critical component to realising child rights to WASH services by the urban poor, more so in childcare centres. Despite the existence of discrete social accountability mechanisms
Ivy Chumo +5 more
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Family Policy and Formal and Informal Care for Preschool-Age Children in Selected European Countries
Sociologický Časopis, 2019 The article focuses on the use of childcare for preschool-age children in 13 European countries with different models of maternal employment. Employing a comparative approach it relates care arrangements to family policy measures.
Věra Kuchařová, Olga Nešporová
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 BackgroundAccountability strategies are expected to enhance access to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) service delivery in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC).
Ivy Chumo +5 more
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Global Public Health, 2023 Adolescent mothers face numerous challenges. This study aimed to address the operationalisation of the new South African national policy for young mothers by testing the associations of potential protective provisions with three policy goals: School ...
Janina Jochim +12 more
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Nurses and the COVID-19 Pandemic - Practices and Identity Construction in Formal and Informal Care
Gender a Výzkum, 2023 The pandemic highlighted the importance of both formal and informal care and magnified gender inequalities in this area. Women were more represented in care-related frontline professions (including nurses), but they were also more often responsible for ...
Marie Pospíšilová
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