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Gene-environment effects on female fertility

Barban, Nicola; De Cao, Elisabetta; Francesconi, Marco - 2021

Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the …

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Does custody law affect family behavior in and out of marriage?

Böheim, René; Francesconi, Marco; Halla, Martin - 2012

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using … individual-level administrative data, covering the entire population. We also use unique data obtained from court records to … in support of a mechanism driven by a resource redistribution that favors men giving them greater incentives to invest in …

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The effect of parents' employment on children's educational attainment

Ermisch, John; Francesconi, Marco - 2000

This paper presents the conditions under which a causal interpretation can be given to the association between childhood parental employment and subsequent education of children. In a model in which parental preferences are separable in own consumption and children's wellbeing, estimation is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339085

Anatomy of welfare reform evaluation : announcement and implementation effects

Blundell, Richard W.; Francesconi, Marco; Klaauw, … - 2011

the announcement of a reform that increases in-work benefits, including sources of intertemporal substitution, human …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516923

Do generous parental leave policies help top female earners?

Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid - 2020

employer-employee matched data for the entire Norwegian population, we address this question exploiting a series of reforms …

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Childhood family structure and schooling outcomes : evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco (contributor); … - 2005

We analyze the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003280834

Symposium on child development and parental investment : introduction

Francesconi, Marco; Heckman, James J. - 2016

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Expansions in paid parental leave and mothers' economic progress

Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid - 2022

We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers reach top-pay jobs and executive positions, using eight Norwegian reforms. Up to a quarter of a century after childbirth, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers' chances to be...

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Family Matters

Ermisch, John F; Francesconi, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The analysis uses a unique set of data matching mothers and their young adult children to study the impact of family background on young people’s educational attainments. The data is derived from the first five years (1991–5) of the British Household Panel Study. Mother’s education is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497967

Childhood Family Structure and Schooling Outcomes: Evidence for Germany

Francesconi, Marco; Jenkins, Stephen P; Siedler, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We analyse the impact on schooling outcomes of growing up in a family headed by a single mother. Growing up in a non-intact family in Germany is associated with worse outcomes in models that do not control for possible correlations between common unobserved determinants of family structure and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498067