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Gender Culture and Gender Gap in Employment

Campa, Pamela; Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola - CESifo - 2009

This paper analyzes to what extent gender culture affects gender gap in employment. Drawing on Italian data, we measure culture by building two indices: one based on individual attitudes, as done in the existing literature; one based on firms’ attitudes. Firms’ beliefs, which express their...

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Persistence of Politicians and Firms' Innovation

Bellettini, Giorgio; Ceroni, Carlotta Berti; Prarolo, … - CESifo - 2011

We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation activity of firms. We use 12,000 firm-level observations from three waves of the Italian Observatory over Small and Medium Enterprises, and introduce a measure of political...

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The Value of Smarter Teachers: International Evidence on Teacher Cognitive Skills and Student Performance

Hanushek, Eric A.; Piopiunik, Marc; Wiederhold, Simon - CESifo - 2014

Differences in teacher quality are commonly cited as a key determinant of the huge international student performance gaps. However, convincing evidence on this relationship is still lacking, in part because it is unclear how to measure teacher quality consistently across countries. We use unique...

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The Influence of Child Care on Maternal Health and Mother-Child Interaction

Kröll, Alexandra; Borck, Rainald - CESifo - 2013

indicate that mothers are in a worse physical condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found … with regard to mothers’ mental health. Overall, there is evidence that mothers placing their children in formal day care …

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Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2014

This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction between second earner wage differences, variation in the price of child care and...

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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 …, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children … in balancing family and work than parental leave payments. The welfare analysis shows that the introduction of subsidies …

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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 … children and spousal specialization in home production of public goods and child care. We then study how child care provision …

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Household Models: An Historical Perspective

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2007

This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature’s neglect of...

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Taxation and Parental Time Allocation under Different Assumptions on Altruism

Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - CESifo - 2014

reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children. …

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Female Labor Supply and Child Care in France

Choné, Philippe; Blanc, David le; Robert-Bobée, Isabelle - CESifo - 2003

We use French household data to estimate a structural model of female labor supply and use of paid child care outside the home. Child care costs are found to have little impact on the labor market participation decision of mothers. The model is used to study various policy issues. The influence...

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