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What Is the Case for Paid Maternity Leave?
Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
, parental earnings and participation in the labor market in the short or long run, completed fertility, marriage or divorce. Not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969227
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Peer Effects in Program Participation
Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The influence of peers could play an important role in the take up of social programs. However, estimating peer effects has proven challenging given the problems of reflection, correlated unobservables, and endogenous group membership. We overcome these identification issues in the context of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969272
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Divorce Risk, Wages, and Working Wives: A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labor Force Participation
Fernandez, Raquel; Wong, Joyce C. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation (LFP). We calibrate the model to match key life-cycle statistics for the 1935 cohort and use it to assess the changed environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969289
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Grandpa and the Snapper: the Wellbeing of the Elderly who Live with Children
Deaton, Angus; Stone, Arthur A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
fertility rates are higher, the elderly do not appear to have lower life evaluations when they live with children; such living …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969330
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Education, Birth Order, and Family Size
Bagger, Jesper; Birchenall, Javier A.; Mansour, Hani; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We introduce a general framework to analyze the trade-off between education and family size. Our framework incorporates parental preferences for birth order and delivers theoretically consistent birth order and family size effects on children's educational attainment. We develop an empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969380
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Cohabitation and the Uneven Retreat from Marriage in the U.S., 1950-2010
Lundberg, Shelly; Pollak, Robert A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969382
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Is There A Case for a "Second Demographic Transition"? Three Distinctive Features of the Post-1960 U.S. Fertility Decline
Bailey, Martha J.; Guldi, Melanie E.; Hershbein, Brad J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Dramatic fertility swings over the last 100 years have been the subject of large literatures in demography and … economics. Recent research has claimed that the post-1960 fertility decline is exceptional enough to constitute a "Second … the fertility decline in the 1960s and 1970s to the earlier 20th century fertility decline, especially the 1920s and 1930s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969391
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The Production of Human Capital: Endowments, Investments and Fertility
Aizer, Anna; Cunha, Flavio - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We study how endowments, investments and fertility interact to produce human capital in childhood. We begin by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969408
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969447
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Lead Exposure and Behavior: Effects on Antisocial and Risky Behavior among Children and Adolescents
Reyes, Jessica Wolpaw - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
It is well known that exposure to lead has numerous adverse effects on behavior and development. Using data on two cohorts of children from the NLSY, this paper investigates the effect of early childhood lead exposure on behavior problems from childhood through early adulthood. I find large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885304