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Are All of the Good Men Fathers? The Effect of Having Children on Earnings

Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian … market. The data permit family-fixed effects to be modeled in various ways, as well as observing earnings growth before and … after having children. The simple conditional correlation between children and earnings is positive. When only variation …

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Fertility Effects on Female Labor Supply: IV Evidence from IVF Treatments

Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper introduces a new IV strategy based on IVF induced fertility variation in childless families to estimate the causal effect of having children on female labor supply using IVF treated women in Denmark. Because observed chances of IVF success do not depend on labor market histories, IVF...

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Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A European Perspective

Gwozdz, Wencke; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Reisch, Lucia A.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The substantial increase in female employment rates in Europe over the past two decades has often been linked in political and public rhetoric to negative effects on child development, including obesity. We analyse this association between maternal employment and childhood obesity using rich...

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Time Costs of Children as Parents' Foregone Leisure

Ekert-Jaffe, Olivia; Grossbard, Shoshana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This article uses data from the 1998-1999 French INSEE time use survey to estimate the time costs of children. The focus is on couples with two spouses working Full-Time in the labor force in order to avoid issues of substitution between home production and labor supply. Time costs are computed...

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Parenthood and Risk Preferences

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...

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Which Children Stabilize Marriage?

Bellido, Héctor; Molina, José Alberto; Solaz, Anne; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Children can be considered as a marriage-specific investment that increases the value of the marriage, making a divorce more costly. We exploit the richness of pre- and post-marital information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79, for the United States, to investigate the relation...

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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010

Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Since 1950 the sources of the gains from marriage have changed radically. As the educational attainment of women overtook and surpassed that of men and the ratio of men's to women's wage rates fell, traditional patterns of gender specialization in work weakened. The primary source of the gains...

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The Stress Cost of Children

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Wooden, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production,...

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Economic and Ethnic Polarisation among Children in Sweden’s Three Metropolitan Areas

Biterman, Danuta; Gustafsson, Bjorn; Österberg, Torun - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper investigates certain issues of economic and ethnic segregation from the perspective of children in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative new operationalization of the neighbourhood concept. Neighbourhoods are clustered by population share of visible immigrants...

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Does Family Composition Affect Social Networking?

Heizler (Cohen), Odelia; Kimhi, Ayal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper analyzes the effect of family composition, and in particular the number of children, the age gap between the oldest and youngest child and the age of the youngest child, on parents' involvement in social networks. The predictions of a simple theoretical model are confirmed by an...

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