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Child Care Costs and the Employment Status of Married Australian Mothers

Rammohan, Anu; Whelan, Stephen - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Using data from the HILDA (Household Income and Labour Dynamics), this paper examines the implications of child care costs on maternal employment status by distinguishing between full-time and part-time work. Our empirical approach uses an ordered probit model taking into account the endogeneity...

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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare

Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara; … - CESifo - 2013

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 … exposed to two informational treatments on the positive consequences of formal childcare on children future educational …

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Happy Voters

Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - CESifo - 2014

Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...

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Scarring or Scaring? The Psychological Impact of Past Unemployment and Future Unemployment Risk

Knabe, Andreas; Rätzel, Steffen - CESifo - 2008

We reassess the “scarring” hypothesis by Clark et al. (2001), which states that unemployment experienced in the past reduces a person’s current life satisfaction even after the person hasbecome reemployed. Our results suggest that the scar from past unemployment operates via worsened...

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Pocketbook Voting and Social Preferences in Referenda

Meya, Johannes; Poutvaara, Panu; Schwager, Robert - CESifo - 2015

We study the role of self-interest and social preferences in referenda. Our analysis is based on collective purchasing decisions of university students on deep-discount flat rate tickets for public transportation and culture. Individual usage data allows quantifying monetary benefits associated...

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Social Preferences, Beliefs, and the Dynamics of Free Riding in Public Good Experiments

Fischbacher, Urs; Gaechter, Simon - CESifo - 2008

We provide a test of the role of social preferences and beliefs in voluntary cooperation and its decline. We elicit individuals’ cooperation preferences in one experiment and use them – as well as subjects’ elicited beliefs – to explain contributions to a public good played repeatedly....

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Economic Incentives and Social Preferences: A Preference-based Lucas Critique of Public Policy

Bowles, Samuel; Reyes, Sandra Polanía - CESifo - 2009

Policies and explicit private incentives designed for self-regarding individuals sometimes are less effective or even counterproductive when they diminish altruism, ethical norms and other social preferences. Evidence from 51 experimental studies indicates that this crowding out effect is...

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Social Preferences and Portfolio Choice

Riedl, Arno; Smeets, Paul - CESifo - 2013

We empirically investigate the effect of social preferences on portfolio choice. We use administrative investor data and link them to behavior in a controlled experiment and to survey responses. We show that social preferences rather than (biased) risk-return expectations are predictive for...

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Adieu Rabenmutter - The Effect of Culture on Fertility, Female Labour Supply, the Gender Wage Gap and Childcare

Borck, Rainald - CESifo - 2011

gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively … correlated with each other, while the gender wage gap seems to be negatively correlated with these variables. The paper presents …

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Do Family Values Shape the Pace to Return to Work after Childbirth?

Borrell-Porta, Mireia - CESifo - 2015

This paper argues that the pace to return to work after childbirth is not independent of family values. I evaluate the … to work of mothers who hold different family values. Using a regression discontinuity design and an epidemiological … approach to family values I find that although the policy has substantially increased the pace to return to work of mothers …

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