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We develop the case of two-stage least squares estimation (2SLS) in the general framework of Athey et al. (Generalized Random Forests, Annals of Statistics, Vol. 47, 2019) and provide a software implementation for R and C++. We use the method to revisit the classic application of instrumental...
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fertility as their earnings profile flattens. The implication of this is that the event-study overestimates women's earnings … selection into fertility show that common intuitions regarding parallel trend assumptions may be misleading, and that pre …
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outcomes in Germany, the child penalty. We further investigate how the 2007 parental benefits reform changed the child penalty … while accounting for fertility effects. A large novel data set linking data from two administrative sources provides … positive medium-run effects employment outcomes. It changes the selection into fertility and shows heterogeneous effects …
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subsidies ; marital instability ; divorce ; fertility …
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We study the effects of the cancellation of a sizeable child benefit in Spain on birth timing and neonatal health. In May 2010, the government announced that a 2,500-euro universal "baby bonus" would stop being paid to babies born on or after January 1st, 2011. We use detailed micro data from...
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Many skilled professional occupations are characterized by an early period of intensive skill accumulation and career establishment. Examples include law firm associates, surgical residents, and untenured faculty at research-intensive universities. High female exit rates are sometimes blamed on...
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at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with …
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This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European … determined by the institutional environment. -- Age ; childbirth ; duration ; ECHP ; fertility ; postponement …
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We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …
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In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …
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