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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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Reducing the child penalty by incentivizing maternal part-time work?
Baertsch, Laurenz; Sandner, Malte - 2024
Worldwide governments discuss how to increase maternal labor market participation and to reduce the child penalty, i.e. labor market earnings losses after child birth. This study analyses the long run effects of a German paid parental leave reform, which aims to increase maternal labour market...
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Cutting fertility? : the effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply
Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016
fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to …The incidence of Cesarean deliveries (CDs) has been on the rise. The procedure's cost and benefits are discussed … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in …
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Parental leave, (in)formal childcare and long-term child outcomes
Danzer, Natalia; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2017
We provide a novel interpretation of the estimated treatment effects from evaluations of parental leave reforms. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child outcomes and potential mediators. We evaluate a large and generous parental leave extension in...
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Fertility as a driver of maternal employment
Schmieder, Julia - 2020
positive effect of an instrument-induced increase in fertility on maternal employment driven by an increase in informal work …
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Does a flexible parental leave system stimulate maternal employment?
Ziegler, Lennart; Bamieh, Omar - 2023
This study examines the effect of two recent parental leave reforms in Austria that allow parents to choose leave schemes with varying duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that the introduction of more flexible scheme choices led mothers to take, on average, 1-2 months less...
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Duration of parental leave and women's employment
Jungho Kim - 2018
The impact of the duration of parental leave on women's employment in Korea is examined by focusing on the heterogeneous effects. The results of the extension of the maximum job-protected leave from 12 months to 15 months are as follows. First, the policy change led to more female employees...
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The effect of children on the level of labor market involvement of married women : what is the role of education?
Troske, Kenneth R.; Voicu, Alexandru - 2009
propose an econometric model that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, for the heterogeneity … of the effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and for the correlation of sequential … ; education ; endogenous fertility decisions ; heterogeneous children effects ; multinomial probit model ; Gibbs sampler …
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The effect of the timing and spacing of births on the level of labor market involvement of married women
Troske, Kenneth R.; Voicu, Alexandru - 2009
women in a framework that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, the heterogeneity of the … effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and the correlation of sequential labor market … part time jobs. Individual heterogeneity plays an important role in the relationship between labor market and fertility …
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Delayed first birth and new mothers' labor market outcomes : evidence from biological fertility shocks
Bratti, Massimiliano; Cavalli, Laura - 2013
effect of postponing motherhood is identified using biological fertility shocks, namely the occurrence of miscarriages and … from that of total fertility. Our estimates suggest that delaying the first birth by one year raises the likelihood of … maternal health status. -- delayed first birth ; fertility shocks ; Italy ; labor market, new mothers …
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