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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...
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Child Penalties and Parental Role Models : Classroom Exposure Effects
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Olivero, Giulia; Patacchini, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper investigates whether the effects of children on the labor market outcomes of women relative to men -- child penalties -- are shaped by the work behavior of peers' parents during adolescence. Leveraging quasi-random variation in the fraction of peers with working parents across cohorts...
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Youth Labor Force Participation, Education, and Human Capital in Asia, by Gender, 1990-2019
Fraumeni, Barbara M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment, dependency rates, human capital per capita, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337769
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Intra-Household Insurance and the Intergenerational Transmission of Income Risk
Agostinelli, Francesco; Ferraro, Domenico; Qiu, Xincheng; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or not work at all, time spent with children, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468296
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Hours Worked and Lifetime Earnings Inequality
Bick, Alexander; Blandin, Adam; Rogerson, Richard Donald - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
an important source of inequality in lifetime earnings. To establish this we develop and calibrate a rich heterogeneous … calibrated model implies that almost 20 percent of the variance in lifetime earnings is accounted for by differences in lifetime … lifetime earnings via two channels: a direct channel (more hours spent in production at given productivity) and a human capital …
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The Outlook for Women's Employment and Labor Force Participation
Albanesi, Stefania - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
industrialized countries continued to rise. I discuss the role of changes in the earnings structure and persistent institutional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437047
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The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies
Karademir, Sencer; Laliberté, Jean-William P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
lessens the earnings and employment impacts of children. We find that the arrival of a firstborn reduces employment and … earnings of mothers and employment of grandmothers. Studying a universal childcare program in Quebec, we find formal childcare …
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Should Mothers Work? How Perceptions of the Social Norm Affect Individual Attitudes Toward Work in the U.S
Cortés, Patricia; Koşar, Gizem; Pan, Jessica; Zafar, Basit - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We study how peer beliefs shape individual attitudes toward maternal labor supply using realistic hypothetical scenarios that elicit recommendations on the labor supply choices of a mother with a young child and an information treatment embedded within representative surveys. Across the...
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The Summer Drop in Female Employment
Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
interruptions contribute to gender gaps in pay: women's weekly earnings decline by 3.3 percent over the summer months, about five …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337799
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Browsers Don't Lie? Gender Differences in the Effects of the Indian COVID-19 Lockdown on Digital Activity and Time Use
Miller, Amalia R.; Ramdas, Kamalini; Sungu, Alp - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We measure the impact of the initial Indian national COVID-19 lockdown on digital activity using browser histories of 1,094 individuals, spanning over 31.5 million website visits on computers and mobile devices. Reflecting the predicted increase in the value of online activity, both men and...
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