Regional child care availability and fertility decisions in Spain

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• dc.contributor.author Baizán, Pau
• dc.date.accessioned 2025-02-25T07:19:11Z
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• dc.date.issued 2009
• dc.description.abstract In this paper I explore two hypotheses: (1) Formal childcare availability for children under 3 has a positive effect on fertility; and (2) Formal childcare availability has different effects across contexts, according to the degree of adaptation of social institutions to changes in gender roles. Event history models with regional fixed effects are applied to data from the European Community Household Panel (1994-2001). The results show a significant and positive effect of regional day care availability on both first and higher order births, while results are consistent with the second hypothesis only for second or higher order births.en
• dc.description.sponsorship A previous version of this paper was presented at the seminar “Fertility and Public Policies in Low Fertility Countries”, held at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, 7-8 July 2008. The seminar was organized by the IUSSP Scientific Panel on Policies in the Context of Low Fertility, in collaboration with the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the Pompeu Fabra University and the Max-Planck Institute for Demographic Research. The author wishes to thank all the comments received in the seminar, particularly those of the discussant, Alessandro Rosina. I would also like to thank two anonymous referees who provided numerous and substantial improvements to the paper. The text benefited from the linguistic editing from MaoMei Liu. The research reported here was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, National Program of Research and Development (SEJ2007-62684/SOCI).en
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• dc.identifier.citation Baizan P. Regional child care availability and fertility decisions in Spain. Demogr Res. 2009 Dec 4;21:803-42. DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.27
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.27
• dc.identifier.issn 1435-9871
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/69719
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
• dc.relation.ispartof Demographic Research. 2009 Dec 4;21:803-42
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PN/SEJ2007-67569
• dc.rights © 2009 Pau Baizán. This open-access work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 2.0 Germany, which permits use, reproduction & distribution in any medium for non-commercial purposes, provided the original author(s) and source are given credit. See http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/de/
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• dc.subject.keyword Childcareen
• dc.subject.keyword Fertilityen
• dc.subject.keyword Gender rolesen
• dc.subject.keyword Social policyen
• dc.subject.keyword Welfare regimesen
• dc.title Regional child care availability and fertility decisions in Spainen
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