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Spillover effects of old-age pension across generations : family labor supply and child outcomes
Kaufmann, Katja; Özdemir, Yasemin; Ye, Han - 2022
We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by exploiting a Dutch pension reform in a fuzzy Regression Discontinuity design. A one-hour increase in grandmothers' hours worked causes adult daughters with young children to work half...
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Old-age pensions and female labour supply in India
Unnikrishnan, Vidhya; Sen, Kunal - 2020
Whether cash transfers have unintended behavioural effects on the recipient household's labour supply is of considerable policy interest. We examine the 'intent to treat effect' of the Indira Gandhi National Old-Age Pension Scheme on prime-age women's labour supply decisions in India, where...
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Spillover effects of old-age pension across generations : family labor supply and child outcomes
Kaufmann, Katja; Özdemir, Yasemin; Ye, Han - 2022
We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by exploiting a Dutch pension reform in a fuzzy Regression Discontinuity design. A one-hour increase in grandmothers' hours worked causes adult daughters with young children to work half...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266034
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Single motherhood in East and West Germany : what can explain the differences?
Jirjahn, Uwe; Struewing, Cornelia - 2015
The share of single mothers is higher in East Germany than in West Germany. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel … of couples with minor children. Women in East Germany have both a higher probability of out-of-partnership birth and a … East and West Germany. The differences in single motherhood appear to be rather driven by cultural and economic factors. …
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If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands : how do mothers and fathers really feel about child caregiving?
Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - 2013
This paper considers the question posed by popular media, do women like doing child care more than men? Using experienced emotions data paired with 24 hour time diaries from the 2010 American Time Use Survey, the paper explores gender differences in how men and women who have done some child...
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A multilevel analysis of child care and the transition to motherhood in Western Germany
Hank, Karsten; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - 2002
in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child …
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Sharing the caring? : the gender division of care work during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, C. Katharina; Waights, Sevrin; … - 2021
parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany we present an empirical analysis that shows greater support for …
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What happens after the "daddy months"? : fathers' involvement in paid work, childcare, and housework after taking parental leave in Germany
Bünning, Mareike - 2015
from 2006 to 2012 and Families in Germany from 2010 to 2012, the results of fixed-effects regressions indicate that fathers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012127533
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What causes the child penalty? : evidence from same sex couples and policy reforms
Andresen, Martin Eckhoff; Nix, Emily - 2019
Women experience significant reductions in labor market income following the birth of children, while their male partners experience no such income drops. This "relative child penalty" has been well documented and accounts for a significant amount of the gender income gap. In this paper we do...
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The impact of parental leave policy on child-rearing and employment behavior : the case of Germany
Chirkova, Serafima - In: IZA journal of labor policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-27
studies the impact of the substantial change in Germany’s parental leave system on maternal employment. The aim of the reform …
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