The Differential Impact of Universal Child Benefits on the Labour Supply of Married and Single Mothers

Koebel, Kourtney; Schirle, Tammy

doi:10.3138/cpp.2015-049

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“…Our empirical strategy is comparable to that used by Schirle (2015), Koebel and Schirle (2016) and Daley (2017) in estimating the impact of the UCCB on labour supply and maternal mental health. 16 We estimate the following model :…”

Section: Empirical Strategymentioning

confidence: 61%

“…First, to the best of our knowledge, this is the rst study to provide an empirical analysis of the impact of the UCCB on children's health and behaviours, as well as on parents. Previous studies on this program focus on labour supply, family expenditures and maternal mental health (Schirle, 2015 ;Koebel and Schirle, 2016 ;Daley, 2017). However, no evidence exists on this reform's eects on children's well-being and parent-child relationships, which are of great interest to policymakers.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In 2001, the federal government extended total available paid maternity leave from 25 to 50 weeks across Canada. The studies by Schirle (2015), Koebel et al (2016) and Daley (2017) include children aged 0 years in their main analysis of the eects of the UCCB policy. As a robustness test, these authors exclude families with children under 12 months old, and their results are similar.…”

Section: All Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Koebel et al (2016) and Daley (2017) also distinguish between one-parent families and two-parent families to evaluate the eects of UCCB. disorder and anxiety score ; (4) physical aggression score ; and (5) indirect aggression score.…”

Section: All Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Koebel and Schirle (2016) distinguish eects on labour supply by the marital status of mothers and show that the UCCB negatively aected the labour supply of legally married mothers but not common-law married mothers or never-married mothers. In contrast, the reform had a signicant positive eect on the labour supply of divorced mothers.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Impact of Universal Child Benefits on Family Health and Behaviours

Lebihan

Takongmo

2018

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In 2006, the Universal Child Care Benet was introduced in Canada for all children aged less than 6 years. This program aims to help cover the cost of children and to provide nancial assistance to families with young children in their choice of childcare. We exploit this policy change to estimate the eects of unconditional family cash transfers on the health and behaviours of two-parent families and their children. Using a dierence-in-dierences model, we nd no evidence that the program improved child and parental outcomes in aggregate.A modest but fragile benecial eect is found for low-education families and for girls.

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confidence: 61%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: All Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: All Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Lebihan

Takongmo

2018

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The effect of universal pre‐kindergarten policy on female labor force participation—A synthetic control approach

2020

Southern Economic Journal

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This paper examines the effect of universal prekindergarten (pre-k) on the labor force participation of mothers with pre-k-aged children in Oklahoma and Georgia. I apply the synthetic control method (SCM) to Current Population Survey (CPS) data to identify the causal relationship between universal pre-k and female labor market outcomes. I find that the universal pre-k policy has a positive impact on the intensive margin of the labor supply of mothers with pre-k-aged children in Georgia, which provides full-day child care services for all pre-k programs. However, Oklahoma's universal pre-k policy has little effect on the labor outcomes of mothers with 4-year-old children. The empirical results also suggest that universal pre-k has heterogeneous impacts on subsamples stratified by education level, marital status, poverty status, and the age structure of children in the household.

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