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The Effect of Skill Level on the Timing of Childbearing and Number of Children
Alders, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 1998
This paper examines the effect of differences in ability on the timing and number ofchildren. Higher skilled women have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257288
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Childcare Subsidies and Labor Supply: Evidence from a large Dutch Reform
Bettendorf, L.J.H.; Jongen, Egbert L.W.; Muller, Paul - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
Over the period 2005-2009 the Dutch government increased childcare subsidies substantially, reducing the average effective parental fee by 50%, and extended subsidies to so-called guestparent care. We estimate the labour supply effect of this reform with a difference-in-differences strategy,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256735
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Education and Labor Market Activity of Women: An Age-Group Specific Empirical Analysis
Münch, Claudia; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255572
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Long-Run Effects of Gestation during the Dutch Hunger Winter Famine on Labor Market and Hospitalization Outcomes
Scholte, Robert S.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
This discussion paper resulted in a publication in the <A href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629614001180">'Journal of Health Economics'</A> 2015, 39, 17-30.<P> This is the first study to analyze effects of in utero exposure to the severe Dutch Hunger Winter famine (1944/45) on labor market outcomes and hospitalization. This famine is clearly demarcated...</p></a>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256631
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The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana
Berry, James; Karlan, Dean; Pradhan, Menno - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015
We evaluate, using a randomized trial, two school-based financial literacy education programs in government-run primary … and junior high schools in Ghana. One program integrated financial and social education, whereas the second program only … offered financial education. Both programs included a voluntary after-school savings club that provided students with a locked …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256124
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On Taxation in a Two-Sector Endogenous Growth Model with Endogenous Labor Supply
Hek, Paul A. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2003
capitalas an input in the education sector and (ii) leisure as anadditional argument in the utility function. The analysis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256980
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Are Workers with A Long Commute Less Productive? An Empirical Analysis of Absenteeism
Ommeren, Jos van; Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
We hypothesize, and test for, a negative effect of the length of the commute on worker’s productivity, by examining whether the commute has a positive effect on worker’s absenteeism. Our estimates for Germany indicate that commuting distance induces absenteeism with an elasticity of about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257093
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Who values the Status of the Entrepreneur?
Praag, C. Mirjam van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009
Netherlands. We find that the status of occupations is mostly determined by the required level of education, the income level to …, but little power and education. Moreover, we find evidence that individual characteristics, such as entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257338
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Optimal Income Taxation with Endogenous Human Capital
Jacobs, Bas - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
. Taxation affects utilization rates of human capital through labor supply responses. The costs of education that are not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257538
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Education, Growth and Income Inequality
Teulings, Coen N.; Rens, Thijs van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002
Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255487