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The Effect of Investment in Children's Education on Fertility in 1816 Prussia
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2010
The interaction between investment in children’s education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799738
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Three Family Policies to Reconcile Fertility and Labor Supply
Fenge, Robert; Stadler, Lisa - CESifo - 2014
In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877797
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The Effect of Long-Term-Care Subsidies on Female Labor Supply and Fertility
Korn, Evelyn; Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2012
Fertility and the provision of long-term care are connected by an aspect that has not received attention so far: both …’s fertility as well as their labor supply when young are affected by such policies. The overall effect can be decomposed into an … opportunity-cost effect and a consumption-smoothing effect that each impact fertility as well as labor supply in opposite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693466
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The Influence of Child Care on Maternal Health and Mother-Child Interaction
Kröll, Alexandra; Borck, Rainald - CESifo - 2013
In Germany, formal child care coverage rates have increased markedly over the past few decades. The present paper is concerned with how mothers’ mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not. Furthermore, the effects of formal child care...
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The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure: Theory and Evidence
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Borck, Rainald - CESifo - 2012
This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877918
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Taxation and Parental Time Allocation under Different Assumptions on Altruism
Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - CESifo - 2014
In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752156
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Early Child Care and Child Development: For Whom it Works and Why
Felfe, Christina; Lalive, Rafael - CESifo - 2012
Many countries are currently expanding access to child care for young children. But are all children equally likely to benefit from such expansions? We address this question by adopting a marginal treatment effects framework. We study the West German setting where high quality center-based care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010599725
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The Employment of Mothers - Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany
Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - CESifo - 2010
We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences...
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Daddy Months
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014
We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948876
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Family Taxation, Fertility, and Horizontal Equity: A Political Economy Perspective
Balestrino, Alessandro - CESifo - 2012
whether i) the parents control their fertility or not, ii) they value their children or not. Second, it investigates the … all "relevant" senses identical should be treated identically); it turns out that under endogenous fertility, any winning … policy trivially satisfies horizontal equity, but if fertility is exogenous for some of (or all) the parents, horizontal …
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