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For some mothers more than others: how children matter for labour market outcomes when both fertility and female employment are low

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

. Among families with at least one child we identify the average causal effect of an additional child on mother’s employment … two or more kids. Heterogeneity analysis suggests no causal effects of fertility on female employment among mothers with … less than college education and older mothers (born before 1978). Furthermore, we find evidence for the interaction of …

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Maternal Addiction to Parental Leave

Engström, Per; Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Liang, Che-Yuan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2006

should be provided in order to prevent mothers from taking too large share of the family’s leave time. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190454

Time for Children, a Study of Parents’ Time Allocation

Hallberg, Daniel; Klevmarken, Anders - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2001

market work, while the direct effects on time with kids are weak. The results suggest that a change in the mother’s work …

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Intergenerational transmission of skills during childhood and optimal public policy

Casarico, Alessandra; Micheletto, Luca; Sommacal, Alessandro - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

The paper characterizes the optimal tax policy and the optimal quality of day care services in a OLG model with warm-glow altruism where parental choices over child care arrangements affect the probability that the child becomes a high-skilled adult in a type-specific way. With respect to...

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For some mothers more than others: how children matter for labour market outcomes when both fertility and female employment are low

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690421

Labour Supply Responses to Paid Parental Leave

Karimi, Arizo; Lindahl, Erica; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

has remained fairly constant. In this paper we re-evaluate the labour supply responses of both mothers and fathers to … reflect actual time off from work in a system where job-protection exceeds paid leave. We find that both mothers and fathers …

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Mothers’ Income Recovery after Childbearing

Angelov, Nikolay; Karimi, Arizo - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

This paper examines the time profile of the effect of fertility on female labour earnings with respect to time since birth. To address endogeneity of fertility to labour income, we use the same-sex instrument (Angrist and Evans, 1998) in a novel way on a panel data set to uncover the time...

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Hidden consequences of a first-born boy for mothers

Ichino, Andrea; Lindström, Elly-Anne; Viviano, Eliana - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical week and work fewer hours than women with first-born girls. The puzzle is why women in these countries react in this way to the sex of their first child, which is chosen...

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Estimating the effects of nuclear power facilities on local income levels: A quasi-experimental approach

Ando, Michihito - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

This paper studies how the establishment of Nuclear Power Facilities (NPF) in the 1970s and 1980s has affected local per capita income levels in NPF-located municipalities in Japan by using the synthetic control method (SCM). Eight quantitative case studies using the SCM clarify that the effects...

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Parental unemployment and child health

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014

We analyze to what extent health outcomes of Swedish children are worse among children whose parents become unemployed. To this end we combine Swedish hospitalization data for 1992-2007 for children 3-18 years of age with register data on parental unemployment. We find that children with...

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