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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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fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for the second and every further child and means …-tested for the first child. Increasing out-of-work income significantly, the transfer can reduce incentives to participate in the …
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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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Lower fertility can translate into a more male-biased sex ratio if son preference is persistent and technology for sex …-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial incentives can overcome this trade-off in the context of … an Indian scheme, Devirupak, that seeks to decrease both fertility and the sex ratio at birth. First, I construct a model …
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I analyze the interplay between culture and economic incentives in decision-making. To this end, I study birth timing … with the home country fertility norm, whereas the timing of the first two births is either unaffected or negatively …
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low income families. Our results imply that the main impact of cuts to child benefits is not to reduce fertility but to … fertility of third and subsequent births. As of April 2017, all third and subsequent born children to low-income families in the … UK did not receive means-tested child benefits, amounting to a reduction in income relative to the previous system of …
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work conditions on worker health; (iii) the impact of differential employer incentives to reintegrate ill workers; and (iv …) the differential impact of labor market prospects on the decision to apply for DI benefits. We find that selection …
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Previous studies, mostly from Anglo-Saxon countries, find a positive correlation between the presence of young children in the household and self-employment probabilities among women. This has been seen as an indication of women with young children choosing self-employment as a way of balancing...
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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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responsive intra-household leave-sharing is to changes in economic incentives. To investigate this fundamental question, we are … economic incentives are very important for intra-household leave-sharing. Increasing the couples' after tax income by $9 per …
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