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Female Employment and Fertility - The Effects of Rising Female Wages
Siegel, Christian - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
more important for raising children. When the disutilities from working in the market and at home are imperfect substitutes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010558713
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In brief...Blackout babies: the impact of power cuts on fertility
Fetzer, Thiemo; Pardo, Oliver; Shanghavi, Amar - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
A rolling blackout in Colombia in the early 1990s led to a rise in unplanned births, according to research by Amar Shanghavi and colleagues. What's more, young women who became mothers after the blackout had worse outcomes in later life. The impact of power outages on fertility is an important...
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An Urban Legend?! Power Rationing, Fertility and its Effects on Mothers
Fetzer, Thiemo; Pardo, Oliver; Shanghavi, Amar - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
This paper answers the question whether extreme power rationing can induce changes in human fertility and thus, generate "mini baby booms". We study a period of extensive power rationing in Colombia that lasted for most of 1992 and see whether this has increased births in the subsequent year,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010711337
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Can Family-Support Policies Help Explain Differences in Working Hours Across Countries?
Sila, Urban - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
people with children and people without children. Childcare subsidies should increase working hours in the economy and these … effects should differ between people with children and people without children. Public support to families is also expected to … working hours are weak and insignificant. In regressions with time spent caring for children as a dependent variable, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476320
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Vertical Transmission of Overweight: Evidence From English Adoptees
Font, Joan Costa; Jofre-Bonet, Mireia; Grand, Julian Le - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
We examine the vertical transmission of overweight drawing upon a sample of English children, both adopted and non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011144239
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The Effect of Marital Breakup on the Income Distribution of Women with Children
Ananat, Elizabeth O.; Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
, divorce significantly increases the odds that a woman with children is poor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005796144
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The Long-Run Labour Market Consequences of Teenage Motherhood in Britain
Chevalier, Arnaud; Viitanen, Tarja K. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market experience and adult wages. However, the decisions to be a teenage mother, to quit school, and be less attached to the labour market might all stem from some personal or family characteristics. Using the National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016647
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Employment Penalty After Motherhood In Spain
Gutierrez-Domenech, Maria - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
This paper investigates whether there exists an employment penalty from motherhood in Spain. In particular, we are interested in transitions from employment to non-employment and downward occupational mobility. Results show that Spanish women experience significant transitions from employment to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016846
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Cross-Generation Correlations of Union Status For Young People in Britain
Blanden, Jo; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
the formative years passes on positive knowledge about unions to children of unionized parents making them more likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016958
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Family-Friendly Working: What a Performance! An Analysis of the Relationship Between the Availability of Family-Friendly Policies and Establishment Performance
Gray, Helen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002
This paper uses the Management and Employee Questionnaires from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS98) to consider whether the performance of workplaces which offer a range of family-friendly policies are superior to that of workplaces without such practices. It is found that in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016998