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Daniela Del Boca

University of Turin and Collegio Carlo Alberto, Italy, and IZA, Germany

IZA World of Labor role

Author

Current position

Professor, Department of Economics, University of Turin; Director CHILD (Centre for Household Income, Labour, and Demographics); Fellow, Collegio Carlo Alberto; Director of Doctoral Program in Economics Vilfredo Pareto, University of Turin 2010–

Research interest

Labor economics and industrial relations, household and population economics

Website

http://bit.ly/DelBoca_personalpage

Positions/functions as a policy advisor

Scientific Committee Save the Children “Educational Poverty” Program (2014–); Advisory Board Ministry of the Family 2007; Committee for the Evaluation of Balancing Work and the Family, Ministry of Labor 2014

Past positions

Fellow, Center for European Studies NYU 2005; Fellow, Italian Academy Columbia 2003; Associate Professor, Polytechnic of Milan

Qualifications

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988

Selected publications

  • “Does the availability of child care impact child outcomes?” Review of the Economics of the Household, forthcoming (with Y. Brilli and C. Pronzato).

  • “Household behavior and marriage market.” Journal of Economic Theory 150 (2014): 137–155 (with C. Flinn).

  • “Household choices and child development.” Review of Economic Studies 81 (2014): 515–550 (with C. Flinn and M. Wiswall).

  • “Endogenous household interactions.” Journal of Econometrics 166 (2012): 49–65 (with C. Flinn).

  • “Life cycle employment and fertility across institutional environments.” European Economic Review 53 (2009): 274–292 (with R. Sauer).

  • “The mismatch between labour supply and child care.” Journal of Population Economics 4 (2007): 805–832 (with D. Vuri).

article(s)

  • Childcare choices and child development

    Generous parental leave and affordable, high-quality childcare can foster children’s abilities

    Daniela Del Boca, March 2015
    The economic and psychological literatures have demonstrated that early investments (private and public) in children can significantly increase cognitive outcomes in the short and long term and contribute to success later in life. One of the most important of these inputs is maternal time. Women’s participation in the labor market has risen rapidly in most countries, implying that mothers spend less time with their children and that families rely more on external sources of childcare. This trend has raised concerns, and an intense debate in several countries has focused on the effectiveness of childcare policies.
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