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Parenthood and productivity of highly skilled labor : evidence from the groves of academe

Krapf, Matthias; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Zimmermann, … - 2014

We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the … find that motherhood is associated with low research productivity. Nor do we find a statistically significant unconditional … effect of a first child on research productivity. Conditional difference-in-differences estimates, however, suggest that the …

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Household saving and full consumption over the life cycle

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2001

This paper extends the standard model of life cycle consumption, saving and labor supply in a number of directions. First, it argues that consumption should be defined as expenditure on household production as well as on market goods, that is, we are interested in life cycle profiles of full...

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Pension policies, retirement and human capital depreciation in late adulthood

Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2020

Economists have mainly focused on human capital accumulation and considerably less on the causes and consequences of human capital depreciation in late adulthood. Studying human capital depreciation over the life cycle has powerful economic consequences for decision-making in old age. Using data...

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A structural analysis of mental health and labor market trajectories

Jolivet, Grégory; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - 2020

We conduct a joint dynamic analysis of individual labor market and mental health outcomes. We allow for a two-way interaction between work and mental health. We model selection in and out of employment as well as between jobs on a labor market with search frictions, where we account for the...

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Public-sector compensation over the life cycle

Gomes, Pedro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2020

The size of the public sector in terms of employment and compensation has a strong life-cycle dimension. We establish a quantitative partial-equilibrium life-cycle model with incomplete markets, private and public sectors, and risk-averse workers, and use it to (i) calculate three dimensions of...

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Geographic mobility over the life-cycle

Díaz, Antonia; Jáñez, Álvaro; Wellschmied, Felix - 2023

When mobility between locations is frictional, a person's economic well-being is partially determined by her place of birth. Using a life cycle model of mobility, we find that search frictions are the main impairment to the mobility of young people in Spain, and these frictions are particularly...

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Life-cycle worker flows and cross-country differences in aggregate employment

Créchet, Jonathan; Lalé, Etienne; Tarasonis, Linas - 2024

Cross-country employment differences are concentrated among women, the youth, and older individuals. In this paper, we document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to aggregate employment differences across a large...

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Job mobility and assortative matching

Braunschweig, Luisa; Dauth, Wolfgang; Roth, Duncan - 2024

We examine the development of worker-firm matching over the career due to job mobility. Using administrative employer-employee data covering the universe of German employees, we measure the degree of assortative matching as the correlation of worker and firm quality measures obtained from an AKM...

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The effects of compulsory schooling on health and hospitalization over the life cycle

Gehrsitz, Markus; Williams, Morgan C. - 2024

This paper examines the effects of education on health and hospitalization over the life cycle. Using administrative data, we leverage a 1972 compulsory schooling reform within the United Kingdom which produced a large increase in educational attainment among affected cohorts. Our regression...

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Does LEED certification save energy? : evidence from federal buildings

Clay, Karen; Severnini, Edson R.; Sun, Xiaochen - 2021

In the absence of first-best climate policy, energy efficiency has figured prominently among strategies to reduce carbon emissions. One of the most sought-after green certification in the building sector is the internationally recognized Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (LEED). This...

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