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Does fertility respond to financial incentives?
Laroque, Guy (contributor); Salanié, Bernard (contributor) - 2008
direct cost of 0.3% of GDP might raise total fertility by about 0.3 point. -- Population ; fertility ; incentives ; benefits …There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … benefits and tax credits among "comparable households. We implement this approach by estimating a discrete choice model of …
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The cultural diffusion of the fertility transition : evidence from internal migration in 19th century France
Daudin, Guillaume; Franck, Raphaël; Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
migration affected fertility by building a decennial bilateral migration matrix between French regions for 1861-1911. The … suggest the convergence towards low birth rates can be explained by the diffusion of low-fertility norms by migrants …
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A natural experiment on job insecurity and fertility in France
Clark, Andrew E.; Lepinteur, Anthony - 2020
Job insecurity can have wide-ranging consequences outside of the labour market. We here argue that it reduces fertility … probability of having a new child by 3.9 percentage points. Reduced fertility is only found at the intensive margin: job … parenthood, as this fertility effect does not appear for low-income and less-educated workers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201745
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Time costs of children as parents' foregone leisure
Ekert-Jaffé, Olivia; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2011
This article uses data from the 1998-1999 French INSEE time use survey to estimate the time costs of children. The focus is on couples with two spouses working Full-Time in the labor force in order to avoid issues of substitution between home production and labor supply. Time costs are computed...
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Regional policy evaluation : interactive fixed effects and synthetic controls
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - 2013
In this paper, we investigate the use of interactive effect or linear factor models in regional policy evaluation. We contrast treatment effect estimates obtained by Bai (2009)'s least squares method with the popular difference in difference estimates as well as with estimates obtained using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771746
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Does work pay in France? : Monetary incentives and the guaranteed minimum income
Gurgand, Marc (contributor); Margolis, David N. (contributor) - 2005
Most welfare programs generate high marginal tax rates on labor income. This paper uses a representative sample of individuals on France's main welfare program (the Revenu Minimum d'Insertion, or RMI) to estimate monetary gains to employment for welfare recipients. This is based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002574606
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Unemployment accounts and employment incentives
Brown, Alessio J. G. (contributor);  … - 2006
people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the … people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003387735
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The economic incentives of cultural transmission: spatial evidence from naming patterns across France
Algan, Yann; Malgouyres, Clément; Mayer, Thierry; … - 2021
This paper studies how economic incentives influence cultural transmission, using a crucial expression of cultural … economic incentives largely influence naming choices: Would the parental expectation on the economic penalty be zero, the …
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Family values, social needs and preferences for welfare
Lucifora, Claudio; Meurs, Dominique - 2012
This paper investigates the links between family values, social needs and individual preferences for welfare using data from the 2005 French "Generation and Gender Survey" (GGS). We analyse individual preferences, for financial assistance and the provision of care services, with respect to...
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Measuring the child penalty early in a career: the case of young adults in France
Bazen, Stephen; Joutard, Xavier; Périvier, Hélène - 2021
There is a large literature on the existence of a child penalty for mothers after the birth of a child. There is little discernible effect on fathers' labour incomes, although some studies find that there is a premium. We measure the penalty due to the birth of a first child for both parents for...
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