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The educational gradient in formal childcare use – the role of employment opportunities and (in)formal childcare availability

Community, Work & Family, 2022
Abstract: This paper investigates three potential mechanisms of educational differentials in formal childcare uptake in Belgium, a country characterised by high availability, but also pronounced gradients in childcare uptake. We investigate whether and to what extent educational differentials can be accounted for by (i) differences in employment ...
Biegel, Naomi, Maes, Julie
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Is early formal childcare an equalizer? How attending childcare and education centres affects children’s cognitive and socio-emotional skills in Germany

European Sociological Review, 2022
Abstract This study examines the role of formal childcare under the age of three in tackling the early social inequality in children’s cognitive and socio-emotional competencies in Germany, by drawing on the new-born sample of the National Educational Panel Study.
Ghirardi, Gaia   +3 more
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Householdss Responses to Price Changes of Formal Childcare

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016
The current understanding about how households respond to price changes in formal childcare is not extensive. This study examines this response through a 1998 reform in Norway that introduced a money transfer to families who did not send their child to childcare.
Leroy Andersland, ivind Anti Nilsen
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Migrants' and natives' attitudes to formal childcare in the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany

Children and Youth Services Review, 2017
This study is one of the first to look at migrants’ attitudes towards formal childcare, and the first one to do so by means of international comparison. The social investment strategy of the EU have, among other things, focused on expanding formal childcare to improve female participation in the labor market and to include children from disadvantaged ...
Seibel, Verena, Hedegaard, Troels Fage
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Does Formal Childcare Uptake Stimulate Fertility? Formal Childcare Usage and Second Births

Population Research and Policy Review
Abstract: The hypothesis that formal childcare stimulates fertility by reconciling work and family life is theoretically well-grounded and mostly tested using national or regional variation in the availability of childcare provisions. However, previous research rarely assesses the relation between individual-level formal childcare uptake and continued ...
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Access to Formal Childcare for Toddlers and Parental Employment and Earnings

SSRN Electronic Journal
This study examines the effect of availability of accredited childcare centers, the most popular category of publicly licensed childcare centers in Japan, on mothers' employment and earnings. We focus on mothers with children less than two years old, most of whom are returning from parental leave to full-time work under excess demand for center-based ...
Fukai, Taiyo, Kondo, Ayako
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Subsidies for parental leave and formal childcare: be careful what you wish for

Review of Economics of the Household, 2020
I exploit the introduction of a policy package in France aimed at helping parents with the care of young children. The reform affected all households with pre-school age children and had two dimensions: a short stay-home subsidy for first-time mothers wishing to take-up parental leave and an increase in childcare subsidies for parents using ...
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Center-based formal childcare closes gaps, others may widen them: How childcare arrangements shape early educational inequality

Acta Sociologica
This short article investigates how childcare arrangements under age three affect early social inequalities in children's competencies using a novel decomposition approach ( Yu and Elwert, 2024 ). This framework comprehensively assesses the relevance of childcare arrangements and the channels
Gaia Ghirardi, Filippo Gioachin
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Maternal depression symptoms, child behavior problems, and their transactional relations: Probing the role of formal childcare

Development and Psychopathology, 2019
AbstractAmong children exposed to elevated maternal depression symptoms (MDS), recent studies have demonstrated reduced internalizing and externalizing problems for those who have attended formal childcare (i.e., center-based, family-based childcare). However, these studies did not consider whether childcare attendance is associated with benefits for ...
Chantal Paquin   +7 more
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Conflicting views? How personal attitudes and perceived public opinion towards formal childcare differ

Families, Relationships and Societies
This study investigates how the transition to parenthood is associated with shifts in personal attitudes and perceived public opinion towards formal childcare for children under three years. Using German panel data, we analyse those changes during the family formation phase using panel regressions with linear between-within (hybrid) models. The results
Samira Beringer   +2 more
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