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This paper presents an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...
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In this paper, I suggest an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963799
are less likely to be employed(true primarily for males) or to have children (females) early in their lives. Evidence …
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In direct contrast to conventional wisdom and most economic models of gender differences in age of marriage, we present robust evidence that men and women who are married to differently-aged spouses are negatively selected. Earnings analysis of married couples in the 1970, 1980, 1990 and 2000...
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In this paper, we investigate the intergenerational transmission of smoking behavior from parents to their children … evidence, that parental smoking significantly increases the probability that their children likewise become smokers. Youths … living in families with both parents smoking are 3.3 times more likely to smoke themselves, while a smoking father raises the …
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We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...
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Farber (1982). The results show that more than 50 percent of children aged 0-3 are queuing for child care slots, whereas only … 10 percent of children aged 4-6 years are queuing. For children in the younger age group about 255,000 child care slots …
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This paper investigates the determinants of intra-household time allocation in post-war Rwanda. A decade after the 1994 genocide, Rwanda still bears the demographic impact of the war, in which at least 800,000 people died and the majority of casualties were adult males. The paper explores two...
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granted to families who do not use public or publicly subsidized child care. Both reforms target children of the same age … effective for all children aged one year or older. Second, a new benefit called 'Betreuungsgeld' came into effect that is …
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Die amtliche Statistik weist für die letzten Jahre einen steigenden Anteil an kinderlosen Frauen aus. Die Kinderlosigkeit von Männern blieb bisher weitgehend unberücksichtigt. Ziel dieses Beitrages ist es, die sozialstrukturellen Rahmenbedingungen unter denen eine Familiengründung ausbleibt...
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