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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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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 243–250.
Published: 01 May 1998
...Lynne M. Casper; Martin O’Connell Abstract Previous research on fathers as child-care providers indicates a need to study the father’s role in child care in the context of different economic cycles. Using data from the 1988, 1991, and 1993 panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation...
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Demography (1988) 25 (2): 205–220.
Published: 01 May 1988
... for younger and older preschool children, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women. We argue that appropriate care depends on the age of the child. It includes care by the mother or a paid provider in the child’s home for children aged 0–2 and mother care and nursery school or center...
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Demography (2001) 38 (2): 299–316.
Published: 01 May 2001
... accurately capture the child care market of centers than that of family day care providers. Our analyses indicate that center child care is least available in nonmetropolitan, poor communities, and that family day care is most available in nonmetropolitan, mixed-income communities. We discuss the benefits...
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Demography (1998) 35 (1): 83–96.
Published: 01 February 1998
... these factors are important because they are associated with unstable child-care supply or because they affect family decisions, conditional on supply factors. The results provide no direct evidence that child-care turnover is higher in states with more unstable child-care markets. 12 1 2011 ©...
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Demography (2023) 60 (4): 1005–1029.
Published: 01 August 2023
... experience a smaller reduction in their household income contribution than other mothers. Additionally, working in a gender-typical industry and a child's augmented care needs reinforce mothers' gendered responses. These findings contribute to the literature by providing new insights into gender roles when...
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Demography (2005) 42 (2): 373–390.
Published: 01 May 2005
... on parents, overlooking the role of relatives such as grandmothers and siblings. Third, the measurement of active care time often ignores the impact of overlaps among both care providers and recipients. Our analysis of the Child Development Supplement of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics sheds light...
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 309–335.
Published: 01 May 2006
... that increases in female incarcerations and reductions in cash welfare benefits played dominant roles in explaining the growth in foster care caseloads over this period. Our results highlight the need for child welfare policies designed specifically for the children of incarcerated parents and parents who...
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Counting on Potential Grandparents? Adult Children’s Entry Into Parenthood Across European Countries
Demography (2020) 57 (4): 1393–1414.
Published: 09 June 2020
... has a disability. Families may also rely on the informal support of grandparents in unexpected situations or in cases in which a child needs a level of care that public childcare services cannot fully provide. Second, in places with a familialistic welfare system, grandparents may agree to help raise...
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Demography (1982) 19 (3): 391–408.
Published: 01 August 1982
.... Demographic factors do not account for the effects of variations in parental ability or willingness to provide adequate infant care. The final model estimated incorporated both these social dimensions of child care. Parental ability, measured by father’s social class, mother’s health information, and local...
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Demography (2007) 44 (2): 265–288.
Published: 01 May 2007
... are less likely to work as migrants when a parent is ill. Poor health of an elderly parent has less impact on the probability of employment as a migrant when an adult child has siblings who may be available to provide care. We also highlight the potential importance of including information on nonresident...
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Demography (2013) 50 (2): 699–724.
Published: 07 November 2012
... their home and had at least one coresiding child; and one-half provided care for the children of at least one child. The percentage of daughters who received each of these types of transfers was lower than that of sons. Table 1 Characteristics of older parents, Ismailia, Egypt ( n = 903) Mean...
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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 (1989) 26 (4): 523–543.
Published: 01 November 1989
... provided by grandmothers . Journal of Marriage and the Family , 51 , 581 – 591 . 10.2307/352158 Presser , H. B. , & Baldwin , W. ( 1980 ). Child care as a constraint on employment: Prevalence, correlates, and bearing on the work and fertility nexus . American Journal of Sociology...
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Demography (1991) 28 (3): 333–351.
Published: 01 August 1991
... , Charles , Robins , Philip K. , & Garfinkel , Irwin ( 1991 ). A Structural Model of Labor Supply and Child Care Demand . Madison : University of Wisconsin, Institute for Research on Poverty . Presser , Harriet B. ( 1989 ). Some Economic Complexities of Child Care Provided...
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Demography (1999) 36 (2): 195–203.
Published: 01 May 1999
... split. The presence of other adults in the postseparation household may increase the needs level of the household. But other adults may also enhance income, either directly through earnings (see Duncan and Hoffman 1985) or indi- rectly by providing child care so that the mother may in- crease her...
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Demography (1998) 35 (2): 147–157.
Published: 01 May 1998
... for wages and for the mother to provide the primary care for children and other "home production." In the event that this couple divorces, this division of labor may lead logically to mothers gaining sole custody of the children and fathers providing financial support in the form of alimony and child...
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 43–63.
Published: 01 February 2002
.... The lack of a mother, father, or other relatives to provide child care or economic support is likely to affect the child s probability of surviving to adulthood. However, ret- rospective information on whether various relatives were alive and present during child- hood is often difficult to collect...
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Demography (1984) 21 (4): 575–589.
Published: 01 November 1984
... (1982) indi- cates a high prevalence of employed fathers caring for preschoolaged children when wives are employed. This, along with the work of Morgan (1981)on "split shifts" as a prevalent mode of providing child care, suggests that child care needs or preferences may affect couple work schedules...
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Demography (2002) 39 (1): 139–164.
Published: 01 February 2002
... per hour used included only mothers from the 1986 and 1988 surveys because the 1985 survey provides only the number of hours of child care used by the youngest child, not the total weekly hours of child care used by mothers with multiple children. 148 Demography, Volume 39-Number 1, February 2002 Both...
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