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CReAM Brown Bag Seminar: Home Care or Formal Day Care? by Tuomas Kosonen
18 June 2019, 12:30 pm–1:30 pm
Home Care or Formal Day Care? The Effect of Home Care Allowance on Child Outcomes (joint with Jonathan Gruber and Kristiina Huttunen)
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Organiser
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Tuan Nguyen
Location
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Drayton HouseRoom 32130 Gordon StreetLondonWC1H 0AXUnited Kingdom
Abstract: We study the effects of child home care allowance that significantly increases parents' incentives to stay home with children under the age of three in Finland. Using a difference-in-differences model that exploits variation in the municipality-specific supplement to the allowance, we investigate the effects of the allowance on children’s outcomes from early childhood until adulthood. Our results show that home care allowance decreases maternal employment and negatively affects the early childhood cognitive test results. On longer term we find that allowance increases youth crimes. However, we do not find any impact on the longer run schooling outcomes. The results are more pronounced in municipalities that have higher average child care quality.
About the Speaker
Tuomas Kosonen
Research Director at Labour Institute for Economic Research
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