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We investigate the role of grandparental childcare for fertility decisions of their offspring. Exploiting pension reforms in Italy, we argue that delayed retirement means a negative shock to the supply of informal childcare for the next generation. We show that one additional grandparent...
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Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...
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educational district near Paris. Parents in test groups were invited to participate in a simple program of training sessions on …
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Evaluating the impact of transport infrastructure meets a major challenge since rail lines are not randomly located. We use the natural experiment offered by the opening and progressive extension of the Regional Express Rail (RER) between 1970 and 2000 in the Paris metropolitan region, and in...
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and the data we have, propensity score matching methods are the most robust approach to estimating ethnic parity. We … by matching. In many cases, it turns out not to be possible to calculate satisfactory quantitative estimates even with … matching techniques: the characteristics of Whites and Ethnic Minorities are simply too different before the Jobcentre Plus …
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To generate big responses of unemployment to productivity changes, researchers have reconfigured matching models in … these redesigned matching models increase responses of unemployment to movements in productivity by diminishing the … introducing costly acquisition of credit, or by positing government mandated unemployment compensation and layoff costs. All of …
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This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against...
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little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration … terms of transaction costs, the US pay on average higher search/hiring costs in the labour market, and smaller training …
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reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …
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It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this Paper we analyse a model with search frictions and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the...
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