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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 …
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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...
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Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?
Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - CESifo - 2008
There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed … fertility decisions in France, both for the first and for the third child. As an example, an unconditional child benefit with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406074
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The Trade-off between Fertility and Education: Evidence from before the Demographic Transition
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2009
instrumental-variable models that instrument education by landownership inequality and distance to Wittenberg and fertility by … previous-generation fertility and sex-imbalance ratio, we find that causation between fertility and education runs both ways …. Furthermore, education in 1849 predicts the fertility transition in 1880-1905. …
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How Productive is Public Capital? A Meta-Analysis
Bom, Pedro R. D.; Ligthart, Jenny - CESifo - 2008
The paper analyzes the contribution of public capital to private output using several meta-analytical techniques. Both fixed and random effects models are estimated by Weighted Least Squares. Sample overlap across studies is explicitly controlled for by employing a ‘full’ Generalized Least...
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The Long-Run Evolution of Infrastructure Services
Goldsmith, Hugh - CESifo - 2014
This paper traces the 11,000 year evolution of infrastructure systems during major periods of innovation, expansion and … positive feedback between early capital market development and investment in infrastructure innovations that lowered system …-wide transaction costs has been a critical factor in sustaining growth since 1800. The paper sets out a model of infrastructure …
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Does the Quality of Electricity Matter? Evidence from Rural India
Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Pelli, Martino; Marchand, Beyza Ural - CESifo - 2013
transmission cables as instrument for the electrification status of the household. We find that a grid connection increases non …
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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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After-School Care and Parents' Labor Supply
Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Thiemann, Petra - CESifo - 2013
Does after-school care provision promote mothers’ employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of schoolchildren? We address this question by exploiting variation in cantonal (state) regulations of after-school care provision in Switzerland. To establish exogeneity of...
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To Work or not to Work? The Effect of Child-Care Subsidies on the Labour Supply of Parents
Kosonen, Tuomas - CESifo - 2013
This paper studies the effect of child-care subsidies on parental labour supply. I use variation arising from changes in the municipality-specific supplement to Finnish child homecare allowance to identify the causal effect of subsidies on the labour force participation of parents. The variation...
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