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The EITC and the Extensive Margin : A Reappraisal
Kleven, Henrik - 2019
comparing single women with and without children, or comparing single mothers with different numbers of children, I show that … mothers who were unaffected by welfare reform (but eligible for the EITC) did not respond. Overall and contrary to consensus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480349
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The Mommy Effect : Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood?
Kuziemko, Ilyana - 2018
After decades of convergence, the gender gap in employment outcomes has recently plateaued in many rich countries, despite the fact that women have increased their investment in human capital over this period. We propose a hypothesis to reconcile these two trends: that when they are making key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452980
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The Labor Market Consequences of Heat Exposure During Pregnancy
Gao, Xuwen; Song, Ran; Timmins, Christopher; Fang, Xia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
mothers' labor market outcomes. We employ individual-level survey data from China and leverage plausibly exogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372441
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COVID-19 Doesn't Need Lockdowns to Destroy Jobs : The Effect of Local Outbreaks in Korea
Aum, Sangmin - 2020
Unlike most countries, Korea did not implement a lockdown in its battle against COVID-19, instead successfully relying on testing and contact tracing. Only one region, Daegu-Gyeongbuk (DG), had a significant number of infections, traced to a religious sect. This allows us to estimate the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481846
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Medicaid Expansions and Welfare Contractions : Offsetting Effects on Prenatal Care and Infant Health?
Currie, Janet - 2000
Evaluations of changes to the Medicaid program have focused on increases in the generosity of income cutoffs for Medicaid eligibility. Previous research shows that despite dramatic increases in the number of births paid for by the Medicaid program, women often enroll in Medicaid at the point of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471100
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Child Care and the Welfare to Work Transition
Lemke, Robert J. - 2000
We assess the role of child care in the welfare to work transition using an unusually large and comprehensive data base. Our data are for Massachusetts, a state that began welfare reform in 1995 under a federal waiver, for the period July 1996 through August 1997. We find that both the nature of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471186
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Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers
Meyer, Bruce D. - 1999
of single mothers, particularly those with young children. In this paper, we first document these large changes in … policies and employment. We then examine if the policy changes are the reason for the large increases in single mothers' labor … supply. We find evidence that a large share of the increase in work by single mothers can be attributed to the EITC, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471421
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Child Care and Mothers' Employment Decisions
Anderson, Patricia M. - 1999
Rising female labor force participation and recent changes to the welfare system have increased the importance of child care for all women and, particularly, the less-skilled. This paper focuses on the child care decisions of women who differ by their skill level and the role that costs play in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471743
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The Missing Baby Bust : The Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic for Contraceptive Use, Pregnancy, and Childbirth among Low-Income Women
Bailey, Martha J.; Bart, Lea J.; Lang, Vanessa Wanner - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Multiple episodes in U.S. history demonstrate that birth rates fall in response to recessions. However, the 2020 COVID-19 recession differed from earlier periods in that employment and access to contraception and abortion fell, as reproductive health centers across the country temporarily closed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938691
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Medication of Postpartum Depression and Maternal Outcomes : Evidence from Geographic Variation in Dutch Prescribing
Currie, Janet M.; Zwiers, Esmée S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Using data on over 420,000 first time Dutch mothers, we examine the effects of postpartum antidepressant use on a wide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660116