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The difficult case of persuading women : experimental evidence from childcare
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2013
Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...
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Mothers' care : reversing early childhood health shocks through parental investments
Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; Cabrales, Antonio; … - 2019
We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are...
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Roles of social conformity in deviance in poverty : a study on working poverty and educational investment in Bangladesh
Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - 2013
despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793157
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ICT dynamics for gender inclusive intermediary education : minimum poverty and inequality thresholds in developing countries
Asongu, Simplice; Amari, Mouna; Jarboui, Anis; … - 2021
promote gender inclusive education in 57 developing countries for the period 2012-2016. Poverty is measured with the poverty … positively affect inclusive education. Second, the poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of the population) should … personal computers to increase inclusive education, the Gini coefficient, Palma ratio and poverty headcount (% of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012436926
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The role of financial inclusion in moderating the incidence of entrepreneurship on energy poverty in Ghana
Asongu, Simplice; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - 2023
This paper assesses the role of financial inclusion in moderating the incidence of entrepreneurship on energy poverty … unconditional positive incidence on energy poverty while the interactive incidence between entrepreneurship and financial inclusion … on energy poverty is negative. The corresponding financial inclusion policy thresholds that should be exceeded in order …
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Behind the child penalty : understanding what contributes to the labour market costs of motherhood
Casarico, Alessandra; Lattanzio, Salvatore - 2021
We study the short- and long-run impact of motherhood on labour market outcomes and explore the individual and firm …
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The parenthood penalty in mental health : evidence from Austria and Denmark
Ahammer, Alexander; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Halla, Martin; … - 2023
Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health. Parenthood imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). These...
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The willingness to pay for job amenities : evidence from mothers' return to work
Felfe, Christina - 2009
This study is the first to estimate mother's marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for job amenities directly. Its identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can decide whether and when to return to their guaranteed...
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The employment of mothers : recent developments and their determinants in East and West Germany
Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2010
We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences...
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Work and wage dynamics around childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - 2012
This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...
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