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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare

Billari, Francesco C.; Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...

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Taking Chances: The Effect of Growing Up on Welfare on the Risky Behaviour of Young People

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Ryan, Chris; Sartbayeva, Ana - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

We analyze the effect of growing up on welfare on young people’s involvement in a variety of social and health risks. Young people in welfare families are much more likely to take both social and health risks. Much of the apparent link between family welfare history and risk taking disappears,...

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Getting Parents Involved: A Field Experiment in Deprived Schools.

Avvisati, Francesco; Gurgand, Marc; Guyon, Nina; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper presents a randomized field experiment conducted in a set of French middle schools located in a deprived educational district near Paris. Parents in test groups were invited to participate in a simple program of training sessions on how to get better involved in their children’s...

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A Microeconometric Evaluation of Active Labour Market Policy in Switzerland

Gerfin, Michael; Lechner, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

informative data originating from administrative records. Using a matching estimator for multiple programmes, we find positive …

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Gender and Racial Biases: Evidence from Child Adoption

Baccara, Mariagiovanna; Collard-Wexler, Allan; Felli, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper uses a new data set on domestic child adoption to document the preferences of potential adoptive parents over born and unborn babies relinquished for adoption by their birth mothers. We show that adoptive parents exhibit significant biases in favor of girls and against...

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After-school care and parents’ labor supply

Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Thiemann, Petra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Does after-school care provision promote mothers’ employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of schoolchildren? We address this question by exploiting variation in cantonal (state) regulations of after-school care provision in Switzerland. To establish exogeneity of...

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Employment, Family Union and Childbearing Decisions in Great Britain

Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Dickson, Matt; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

in fertility levels. Changes in union formation and fertility levels, on the other hand, do have a significant impact on …

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Fertility: The Role of Culture and Family Experience

Fernández, Raquel; Fogli, Alessandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We … use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values … of the total fertility rate in woman’s country of ancestry as the cultural proxy and use the woman’s number of siblings …

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The Gender Gap, Fertility and Growth

Galor, Oded; Weil, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper examines a novel mechanism linking fertility and growth. There are three components to the model. First … to men's. Second, increasing women's relative wages reduces fertility by raising the cost of children more than household … income. Third, lower fertility raises the level of capital per worker. This positive feedback loop generates a demographic …

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The Pay-As You-Go Pension System as a Fertility Insurance and Enforcement Device

Sinn, Hans-Werner - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

It is argued that a PAYGO system may have useful allocative functions in that it serves as an insurance against not having children and as an enforcement device for 'rotten kids' who are unwilling to pay their parents a pension. It is true that the system has a moral hazard effect in terms of...

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