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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 139–164.
Published: 01 February 2002
...Charles L. Baum, II Abstract Child care costs reduce the net benefit of working and consequently influence mothers’ decisions to work. They affect the employment of low-income mothers in particular because they represent a larger portion of these mothers’ earnings. I used a hazard framework...
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Demography (1992) 29 (4): 523–543.
Published: 01 November 1992
... to increase the supply of child care or to lower its cost could increase female labor supply by a substantial fraction, with an even greater rise among women most at risk of poverty and reliance on public assistance, but probably would not raise fertility significantly. 12 1 2011 © Population...
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Demography (1989) 26 (2): 287–299.
Published: 01 May 1989
...David M. Blau; Philip K. Robins Abstract A sample of labor-market and birth histories is used to estimate the effects of child-care costs on employment and fertility decisions. A reduced-form empirical analysis is performed, which is based on hazard functions for transitions among various fertility...
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 165–179.
Published: 01 February 2002
...Marcia K. Meyers; Theresa Heintze; Douglas A. Wolf Abstract Changing patterns of maternal employment, coupled with stronger work requirements for welfare recipients, are increasing the demand for child care. For many families, the cost of child care creates a financial burden; for mothers with low...
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Demography (1998) 35 (1): 83–96.
Published: 01 February 1998
... in child care is quite high and that child and family characteristics help explain turnover. Important factors include the mother’s wage, the cost of child care, age of the child, and previous child-care decisions. The reduced-form nature of the analysis makes it difficult to determine whether...
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Demography (1992) 29 (1): 17–29.
Published: 01 February 1992
...Rachel Connelly Abstract This paper considers self-employment and providing child care as occupational strategies that can lower the cost of child care. If the ability to care for one’s own children while engaged in market work is important to mothers with young children, we predict that women...
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in Are States Created Equal? Moving to a State With More Expensive Childcare Reduces Mothers' Odds of Employment
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Published: 01 April 2021
Fig. 1 State distribution of childcare costs. States with higher childcare costs are indicated in a darker color and represent yearly costs higher than the U.S. average. Childcare costs are an index of the yearly average cost of center-based infant and school-age care and paid home-based infant
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Demography (2013) 50 (3): 933–954.
Published: 06 November 2012
... have begun to offer adoption subsidies to offset some of these expenses, significantly lowering the cost of adopting a child who is in the foster care system. This article presents empirical evidence of the role that these economic incentives play in foster parents’ decision of when, or if, to adopt...
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Demography (1985) 22 (4): 499–513.
Published: 01 November 1985
... additional children" (U.S. Commission, 1972:88).3 These hypotheses suggest that in examining the child care-fertility linkage for households with working mothers, attention should be paid to differences among modes in (a) the costs associated with raising children, and (b) the compatibility between...
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Demography (1991) 28 (3): 333–351.
Published: 01 August 1991
... by altering their labor supply and child care behavior. 30 12 2010 © Population Association of America 1991 1991 Child Care Labor Supply Relative Care Child Care Cost Child Care Arrangement References Avery , Robert B. , & Hotz , V. Joseph ( 1985 ). HOTZTRAN...
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Demography (1994) 31 (4): 651–662.
Published: 01 November 1994
... of America 1994 1994 Child Care Family Business Provide Child Care Event History Analysis Child Care Cost References Allison P.D. ( 1982 ). Discrete-Time Methods for the Analysis of Event Histories . In S. Leinhardt (Ed.), Sociological Methodology (pp. 61 – 98 ). San...
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Demography (1977) 14 (3): 265–272.
Published: 01 August 1977
... and divorce only when they were in the preschool ages. Once all the children in a family were in school, they did not seem to influence the probability of separation and divorce. It is suggested that the high costs of child care for preschool children, in terms of time, money, and effort, act as a deterrent...
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Demography (1992) 29 (2): 215–226.
Published: 01 May 1992
... ). How Taxes Affect Economic Behavior . Washington, DC : Brookings Institution . Averett, Susan L. 1991. “Child Care Costs and Female Labor Supply: An Empirical Investigation of the Effects of the Child Care Tax Credit on Female Labor Supply and Demand for Child Care.” Doctoral dissertation...
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Demography (2004) 41 (2): 285–301.
Published: 01 May 2004
... Child Care Cost Child Care Arrangement References Becker G.S ( 1981 ). A Treatise on the Family . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Bianchi S.M. , & Casper L.M. ( 2000 ). American Families Population Bulletin . Washington, DC : Population Reference...
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Demography (1988) 25 (2): 205–220.
Published: 01 May 1988
... ). Relationship of educational attainment, child oriented attitudes, job satisfaction, and career commitment to caregiver behavior toward children . Child Care Quarterly , 14 , 103 – 129 . 10.1007/BF01113405 Blau, D. M., and P. K. Robins. 1987. Child-Care Costs and Family Labor Supply. Paper presented...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 451–470.
Published: 01 April 2021
...Fig. 1 State distribution of childcare costs. States with higher childcare costs are indicated in a darker color and represent yearly costs higher than the U.S. average. Childcare costs are an index of the yearly average cost of center-based infant and school-age care and paid home-based infant...
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Demography (2007) 44 (2): 345–372.
Published: 01 May 2007
... and a statistically defensible fixed-effects model, we find strong positive effects of day care availability on the transition to motherhood. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2007 2007 Child Care Female Labor Force Participation Child Care Center Care Availability Child Care Cost...
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Demography (2016) 53 (1): 27–53.
Published: 10 December 2015
.... K. ( 1989 ). Fertility, employment, and child-care costs . Demography , 26 , 287 – 299 . 10.2307/2061526 Borjas , G. J. ( 2003 ). The labor demand curve is downward sloping: Reexamining the impact of immigration on the labor market . Quarterly Journal of Economics , 118...
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Demography (1974) 11 (2): 227–245.
Published: 01 May 1974
... economically dependent on their fathers. The older the man is, however, the less likely any of them will be de- pendent. To sum up, the table indicates the child-care costs are probably at or near their highest level for a substantial pro- portion of married men in the 35-54 age group. This is not to say...
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 299–316.
Published: 01 May 2001
... Investigation of Firms’ Responses to Minimum Standard Regulations . Cambridge, MA : National Bureau of Economic Research . Connelly , R. ( 1991 ). The Importance of Child Care Costs to Women’s Decision Making . In D.M. Blau (Ed.), The Economics of Child Care (pp. 87 – 118 ). New York...
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