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July 2004 (Department for Work and Pensions)
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Families and Children Strategic Analysis Programme (FACSAP) Reviewing approaches to understanding the link between childcare use and mothers' employment
Type: External publications
Authors: Mike Brewer and Gillian Paull
Volume, issue, pages: 55 pp.; DWP working paper No. 14
Published in: DWP working papers

This report was commissioned through the Department for Work and Pensions' Families and Children Strategic Analysis Programme (FACSAP). It examines methods that could potentially be used to explore the link between mothers' demand for childcare and their employment. Several approaches are examined, including: learning from evaluations of existing programmes; the scope for natural experiments and the potential for reduced form and structural modelling of key relationships. The report focuses on methodology but in doing so presents findings from existing studies in the area, most of which are from the United States.

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