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Goldilocks Economies? Temperature Stress and the Direct Impacts of Climate Change

Heal, Geoffrey; Park, Jisung - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015

We review recent literature on the effect of temperature stress on economic activity, operating through basic human … physiology. There is growing evidence from both micro and macro studies of causal impacts of extreme temperature on health, labor … temperature zone for economic activity, though empirical research on potential adaptive responses remains thin. This emerging …

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Temperature and the Allocation of Time: Implications for Climate Change

Graff Zivin, Joshua; Neidell, Matthew J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

plausibly exogenous variation in daily temperature over time within counties. We find large reductions in U.S. labor supply in …

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Retirement Timing of Women and the Role of Care Responsibilities for Grandchildren

Lumsdaine, Robin L.; Vermeer, Stephanie J.C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This paper considers the potential relationship between providing care for grandchildren and retirement, among women nearing retirement age. Using 47,400 person-wave observations from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we find the arrival of a new grandchild is associated with a more than...

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Boy-Girl Differences in Parental Time Investments: Evidence from Three Countries

Baker, Michael; Milligan, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. We refine previous evidence that fathers commit more time to boys, showing this greater commitment emerges with age and is not present for very young children. We next examine...

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The Effect of Maternal Employment on Children's Academic Performance

Dunifon, Rachel; Nicholson, Sean; Hansen, Anne Toft; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Using a Danish data set that follows 135,000 Danish children from birth through 9th grade, we examine the effect of maternal employment during a child's first three and first 15 years on that child's grade point average in 9th grade. We address the endogeneity of employment by including a rich...

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Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform

Lavy, Victor Chaim; Danzer, Natalia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an...

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Opting For Families: Recent Trends in the Fertility of Highly Educated Women

Weinberg, Bruce A.; Shang, Qingyan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Observers have argued about whether highly-educated women are opting out of their careers and for families. If so, it is natural to expect fertility to increase and, insofar as children are associated with lower employment, further declines in employment. This paper provides a comprehensive...

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Gender Roles and Technological Progress

Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Until the early decades of the 20th century, women spent more than 60% of their prime- age years either pregnant or nursing. Since then, improved medical knowledge and obstetric practices reduced the time cost associated with women's reproductive role. The introduction of infant formula also...

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Parental Leave Policies and Parents' Employment and Leave-Taking

Ruhm, Christopher; Han, Wen-Jui; Waldfogel, Jane - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Utilizing data from the June Current Population Survey (CPS) Fertility Supplement merged with data from other months of the CPS, we describe trends in parents' employment and leave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to which these behaviors are associated with parental leave...

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Child Labor

Edmonds, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords "child lab*r" reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between 1980 and 1990, 65 between 1990 and 2000, and 143 in the first five years of the present decade....

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