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Child Skill Production: Accounting for Parental and Market-Based Time and Goods Investments

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In this article, the authors define a technologie which definit les habitudes de substitution entre, d'une part, le temps et les biens et services achetes a la maison and, de lautre, les services de garde achees sur le marche, ainsi qu'entre ces intrants and les services of garde lucratifs.
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Les parents investissent du temps et de l’argent a la maison dans le developpement du capital humain de leurs enfants. Beaucoup investissent aussi de fortes sommes dans des services de garde lucratifs. De nombreuses politiques gouvernementales influencent ces decisions d’investissement. Leur incidence sur le bien-etre et le developpement des enfants depend de comment les familles reagissent en modifiant la repartition des investissements dans une periode donnee et au fil du temps. Dans la litterature, on estime habituellement les fonctions de production de capital humain chez les enfants de deux facons : soit on reduit les investissements pour chaque periode a un seul intrant composite, soit on fait des hypotheses sur la substituabilite entre les intrants. Dans cette etude, nous examinons une technologie qui definit les habitudes de substitution entre, d’une part, le temps et les biens et services achetes a la maison et, de l’autre, les services de garde achetes sur le marche. Nos estimations portent a croire a une complementarite entre le temps consacre par les parents et les biens et services a la maison, ainsi qu’entre ces intrants et les services de garde lucratifs. Il importe de tenir compte du degre de complementarite des intrants sous-entendu par nos estimations pour comprendre les tendances transversales des donnees ainsi que les reactions aux variations des prix sur les marches et aux changements de politiques.

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The EITC and Maternal Time Use: More Time Working and Less Time with Kids?

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Early Childhood Care and Cognitive Development

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Designing Cash Transfers in the Presence of Children’s Human Capital Formation

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TL;DR: Mullins et al. as discussed by the authors found that accounting for the human capital development of children has a quantitatively large effect on the true costs and benefits of providing cash assistance to single mothers in the United States.
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Child Care Subsidies with One- and Two-Parent Families

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study the implications of eligibility rules for child care subsidies in a general equilibrium, overlapping generations framework where altruistic parents invest in child skill for one-and two-parent families, and endogenize family formation with a marriage market.
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Mother’s Time Allocation, Childcare, and Child Cognitive Development

TL;DR: In this paper , the effects of maternal and non-parental time on a child's cognitive development were analyzed using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSI) using a model that allows the mother's time productivity to depend on her education level and distinguishes between formal and informal care.
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Formulating, Identifying and Estimating the Technology of Cognitive and Noncognitive Skill Formation

TL;DR: A dynamic factor model is estimated to solve the problem of endogeneity of inputs and multiplicity of inputs relative to instruments and the role of family environments in shaping these skills at different stages of the life cycle of the child.
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Alternative methods for evaluating the impact of interventions: An overview

TL;DR: Methods for estimating the impact of training on earnings when non-random selection characterizes the enrollment of persons into training are presented and the robustness of the estimators to choice-based sampling and contamination bias is examined.
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Parental Education and Parental Time with Children

TL;DR: In this article, a cross-sectional analysis of the American Time Use Surveys (ATUS) showed that time spent with children does not follow patterns typical of leisure or home production, suggesting an important difference.
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Earnings functions, rates of return and treatment effects: the Mincer equation and beyond

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the economic interpretation of these analyses and how the availability of repeated cross-section and panel data improves the ability of analysts to estimate the rate of return, and propose a nonparametric approach for estimating marginal internal rates of return that takes into account tuition, income taxes and forms of uncertainty.