Information and Women's Intentions: Experimental Evidence About Child Care.
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SUBMITTER: Galasso V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6241085 | biostudies-other | 2017 Feb
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Information and Women's Intentions: Experimental Evidence About Child Care.
Galasso Vincenzo V Profeta Paola P Pronzato Chiara C Billari Francesco F
European journal of population = Revue europeenne de demographie 20170130 1
We investigate the effect of providing information about the benefits to children of attending formal child care when women intend to use formal child care so they can work. We postulate that the reaction to the information differs across women according to their characteristics, specifically their level of education. We present a randomized experiment in which 700 Italian women of reproductive age with no children are exposed to positive information about formal child care through a text messag ...[more]
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