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Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform

Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - CESifo - 2013

This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an...

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The Tempest: Natural Disasters, Early Shocks and Children's Short- and Long-Run Development

Deuchert, Eva; Felfe, Christina - CESifo - 2013

Economic theory predicts that adverse shocks during early childhood have detrimental short- and long-run consequences for children’s development. We examine this hypothesis by analyzing the short-and long-run effects on children’s health and education of a specific shock: housing damages...

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Home with Mom: The Effects of Stay-at-Home Parents on Children's Long-Run Educational Outcomes

Bettinger, Eric; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rege, Mari - CESifo - 2013

In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents’ incentives to stay home with children under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long-run educational outcomes of the older siblings. Using...

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Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field?

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - CESifo - 2012

Many developed countries currently consider a move towards a universal child care program. The challenge in assessing the case for universal child care programs is that the evidence base is scarce. We analyze the staged expansion of subsidized, universally accessible child care in Norway. Our...

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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...

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Nobody Home: The Effect of Maternal Labor Force Participation on Long-Term Child Outcomes

Haaland, Venke Furre; Rege, Mari; Votruba, Mark - CESifo - 2013

We investigate how mother’s employment during childhood affects long term child outcomes. We utilize rich longitudinal data from Norway covering the entire Norwegian population between the years 1970 to 2007. The data allows us to match all family members and to measure maternal labor force...

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Causal Effects of Paternity Leave on Children and Parents

Cools, Sara; Fiva, Jon H.; Kirkebøen, Lars J. - CESifo - 2011

In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave on children’s and parents’ outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for children’s cognitive skills. School performance at age...

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When is Ambiguity-Attitude Constant?

Eichberger, Jürgen; Grant, Simon; Kelsey, David - CESifo - 2012

This paper studies how updating affects ambiguity-attitude. In particular we focus on the generalized Bayesian update of the Jaffray-Phillipe sub-class of Choquet Expected Utility preferences. We find conditions for ambiguity-attitude to be the same before and after updating. A necessary and...

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First Impressions Matter: Signalling as a Source of Policy Dynamics

Hansen, Stephen; McMahon, Michael - CESifo - 2012

with experience. We then reject increasing confidence in private information or learning about the structure of the …

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Optimal Monetary Policy when Agents are Learning

Molnár, Krisztina; Santoro, Sergio - CESifo - 2010

We derive the optimal monetary policy in a sticky price model when private agents follow adaptive learning. We show … order to facilitate private sector learning and thus ease the future intratemporal inflation-output gap trade-offs. The … policy recommendation is robust: the welfare loss entailed by the optimal policy under learning if the private sector …

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