The Matthew effect in childcare use: a matter of policies or preferences?

Pavolini, Emmanuele; Lancker, Wim Van

doi:10.1080/13501763.2017.1401108

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“…However, there are also signs of emerging complementarities between them. For example, exploration of the Matthew effect (e.g., Pavolini & Van Lancker, 2018) dovetails closely with efforts to use policy analysis to identify heterogeneous treatment effects of human capital development programs (e.g., Schoenberg, Cornelissen, Dustmann, & Raute, 2018). Labor unions are receiving attention on multiple fronts.…”

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“…Researchers are particularly interested in the possibility of higher utilization of social investment among the middle and upper classes than the poor, commonly known as the “Matthew effect,” and potential related impacts on economic inequality (Busemeyer et al, ). For example, Pavolini and Van Lancker () find evidence of a “Matthew effect” in European use of child care, related primarily to policy design decisions rather than child‐care demand. Van Lancker () finds that while more government spending on child‐care services in European countries increases child‐care participation rates for all groups, it does not decrease inequality of use between groups.…”

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Social Policy Perspectives on Economic Inequality in Wealthy Countries

Giordono¹,

Jones²,

Rothwell³

2019

Policy Studies Journal

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This essay reviews the policy‐oriented literature on economic inequality in wealthy countries published from 2008 to 2018. We focus on this decade because it is a period bookended by both the beginnings of the Great Recession of 2008–2009 as well as the recovery. During this timeframe, attention to inequality by social policy scholars grew substantially, which we argue reflects an interest in both inequality trends as well as redistributive social policy. We observe in the literature sustained efforts to understand both the relationship between social policy and economic inequality, as well as determinants of changes to redistributive social policy. We also note substantial variation in research traditions, as well as opportunities to address substantive, methodological, and theoretical gaps. Our review summarizes the approaches and findings from the literature and discusses the implications of the findings for the study of economic inequality within the academic field of public policy.

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Social Policy Perspectives on Economic Inequality in Wealthy Countries

Giordono¹,

Jones²,

Rothwell³

2019

Policy Studies Journal

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“…An interesting fact refers to who uses the credits, as there is always a risk that these credits may go to higher income mothers. This has not been the case in Uruguay: the percentage of women using childcare credits is clearly decreasing by pension deciles (Source 3), indicating that the "Matthew Effects" sometimes found in social policies (Bonoli & Liechti, 2018;Gal, 1998;Pavolini & Van Lancker, 2018) do not hold in our case. In the first three deciles around 80% of women use the credits, whereas this percentage decreases to around 26% in the upper decile.…”

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Caregiver pension credits for women: Recent experience in Uruguay

Amarante¹,

Tenenbaum²

2018

Soc Policy Adm

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This article analyses the effects of the implementation of childcare pension credits for women in Uruguay, which were introduced as part of a social security reform in 2009. Using microdata from administrative records of the social security administration, we show that around 60% of retired women have used these credits between 2009 and 2015, computing on average 2.7 additional years of service. The use of childcare credits has been higher among more vulnerable female workers. Among women with lower pensions, childcare credits are used both to reach the required years for retirement and to improve the amount of pensions, whereas for women in the higher deciles the program mainly impacts on the amount of pensions. Using a difference in difference approach, we also show that the program has, to some extent, acted as a substitute for the mechanism of computing years of service through the declaration of witnesses, an extended practice in Uruguay to access pensions. Lastly, we show that, if these credits had not been incepted, female access to pensions would have been significantly lower, and gender gaps both in access to, and in the amount of, pensions would have been higher.

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“…These results also highlight the importance of explicitly considering the role of intrafamilial transfers in future analysis as social investments may have a differential impact across childhood and early youth through family investments (Gál, Vanhuysse, andVargha 2018, Francesconi andHeckman 2016). At the same time, we need to be cautious as we did not consider any redistributive/differential effect that such policies can have at the individual levels (Bonoli and Liechti 2018;Pavolini and Van Lancker 2018), nor any regional spillover effects that policies can have among regions. Future research thus need to further investigate possible complementaries between the two types of policies as well as the explicit role of family investments (both in cash and in time), as youth employment remains the crucial node to sustainable economic and social development.…”

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Social Investment and Youth Labor Market Participation

Ecchia

Gagliardi

2019

Contemporary Economic Policy

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In this paper, we first rely on small area techniques to derive from EU statistics on income and living conditions (EU‐SILC) survey new indicators of compensatory and social‐investment policies at regional level. While compensatory policies have mainly the goal of protecting individuals from “old” risks (e.g., old‐age), investment‐related social policies tend to focus more on “new social risks” (e.g., skill deficits). We rely on these new indicators to perform a data‐driven structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) analysis to investigate the causal relationships between youth labor market outcomes and these two types of spending. Our results support the view that social‐investment policies are effective for tackling new social challenges. (JEL C18, C54, E02)

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The Matthew effect in childcare use: a matter of policies or preferences?

Cited by 129 publications

References 24 publications

Social Policy Perspectives on Economic Inequality in Wealthy Countries

Social Policy Perspectives on Economic Inequality in Wealthy Countries

Caregiver pension credits for women: Recent experience in Uruguay

Social Investment and Youth Labor Market Participation

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