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Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates have reduced, in the case of Belarus women activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender pay gap. This paper investigates why this is the case by...
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Parental migration is often found to be negatively correlated with child health in Africa, yet the causal mechanisms are poorly understood. The paper uses a dataset that provides information from the respondent parent on child morbidity both in the rural and urban settings...
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Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining …
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This paper evaluates the impact of three major expansions in leave coverage in Germany on the long-run education and … labor market outcomes of children. Evaluation of three policy reforms as opposed to a single reform enables us to analyze …
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There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household level. We put forward an identification strategy that relies on the fact that variation of wages induces variation in benefits and tax credits among "comparable households...
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We estimate the effect of early child development on maternal labor force participation using data from teacher assessments. Mothers might react to having a poorly developing child by dropping out of the formal labor force in order to spend more time with their child, or they could potentially...
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To examine the impact of Rwanda`s 1994 genocide on children`s schooling, the authors combine two cross … group`s baseline schooling and exploits variation across provinces in the intensity of killings and which children`s cohorts …
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We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the increased demandfor female labor during World War II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibriummodel with endogenous fertility and female labor-force participation decisions...
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Little is known about why cohabiting couples have fewer children than married couples. Weexplore the factors that …
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Utilizing data from the June Current Population Survey (CPS) Fertility Supplement mergedwith data from other months of the CPS, we describe trends in parents´ employment andleave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to which these behaviors areassociated with parental leave...
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