Home with Mom: The Effects of Stay-at-Home Parents on Children’s Long-Run Educational Outcomes

Bettinger, Eric; Hægeland, Torbjørn; Rege, Mari

doi:10.1086/675070

“…Closest to our analysis is a small literature on the introduction of home care (or cash for care) subsidies in other European countries (see Schøne 2004;Naz 2004;Kornstad and Thoresen 2007;Bettinger et al 2014 for Norway; Kosonen 2014 for Finland;and Piketty 2005 for France). All of these reforms were implemented at the national level, which makes it difficult to separate the reform effect from changes in the economic and social environment that also affect labor supply.…”

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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply, and Children

Gathmann

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Sass

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2018

Journal of Labor Economics

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research at DIW BerlinThis series presents research findings based either directly on data from the German SocioEconomic Panel study (SOEP) or using SOEP data as part of an internationally comparable data set (e.g. CNEF, ECHP, LIS, LWS, CHER/PACO). SOEP is a truly multidisciplinary household panel study covering a wide range of social and behavioral sciences: economics, sociology, psychology, survey methodology, econometrics and applied statistics, educational science, political science, public health, behavioral genetics, demography, geography, and sport science.The decision to publish a submission in SOEPpapers is made by a board of editors chosen by the DIW Berlin to represent the wide range of disciplines covered by SOEP. There is no external referee process and papers are either accepted or rejected without revision. Papers appear in this series as works in progress and may also appear elsewhere. They often represent preliminary studies and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be requested from the author directly.Any opinions expressed in this series are those of the author(s) and not those of DIW Berlin.Research disseminated by DIW Berlin may include views on public policy issues, but the institute itself takes no institutional policy positions. Abstract Previous studies report a range of estimates for the response of female labor supply and childcare attendance to childcare prices. We shed new light on these questions using a policy reform that raises the price of public daycare. After the reform, children are 8 percentage points less likely to attend public daycare which implies a compensated price elasticity of -0.6. There is little labor supply response in the full sample, though declines for vulnerable subgroups. Spillover effects on older siblings and fertility decisions show that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members.Acknowledgments: We thank Iwan

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“…The exception is Carneiro et al (2011) who find improvements in children's long-run educational outcomes following a parental leave expansion in Norway. Likewise, a recent paper by Bettinger et al (2013) exploits the introduction of an allowance paid to parents who do not utilize public care as an exogenous shock to maternal time devoted to their children in Norway. They also find positive effects on elderly siblings' long-run educational outcomes.…”

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Can’t buy mommy’s love? Universal childcare and children’s long-term cognitive development

Felfe

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Nollenberger

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Rodríguez‐Planas

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2014

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What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year-olds mainly crowds out family care? To answer this question, we take advantage of a sizeable expansion of publicly subsidized full-time high-quality childcare for 3-year-olds in Spain in the early 1990s. Identification relies on variation in the initial speed of the expansion of childcare slots across states. Using a difference-in-difference approach, we find strong evidence for sizeable improvements in children's reading skills at age 15 (0.15 standard deviation) and weak evidence for a reduction in grade retentions during primary school (2.5 percentage points). The effects are driven by girls and disadvantaged children.

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“…16 While this reform did not affect the children in our sample directly, it could have had an effect on younger siblings and therefore an indirect effect on the children in our sample (Bettinger, Haegeland, and Rege, 2014). However, the impact of the cash-for-care reform does not differ between children born in 1990 and 1991, which constitute our baseline estimation sample.…”

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Kindergarten for all: Long run effects of a universal intervention

Drange

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Havnes

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Sandsør

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2016

Economics of Education Review

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in AbstractTheory and evidence point towards particularly positive effects of high-quality child care for disadvantaged children. At the same time, disadvantaged families often sort out of existing programs. To counter differences in learning outcomes between children from different socioeconomic backgrounds, governments are pushing for universal child care. However, it is unclear how effective programs with universal participation may be at addressing the needs of disadvantaged children. We provide evidence on the long-run effect on schooling of mandating kindergarten at age 5-6. Our identifying variation comes from a reform that lowered school starting-age from 7 to 6 in Norway in 1997. The new program was designed as a low intensity kindergarten program, similar to voluntary child care programs available before mandating. Our precise DD estimates reveal hardly any effect, both overall, across subsamples, and over the grading distribution. A battery of specification checks support our empirical strategy.

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Home with Mom: The Effects of Stay-at-Home Parents on Children’s Long-Run Educational Outcomes

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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply, and Children

Taxing Childcare: Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply, and Children

Can’t buy mommy’s love? Universal childcare and children’s long-term cognitive development

Kindergarten for all: Long run effects of a universal intervention

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