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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032830
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083404
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642872
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666683
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468711
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084349
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Why Do Mothers Breastfeed Girls Less Than Boys? Evidence and Implications for Child Health in India
Jayachandran, Seema; Kuziemko, Ilyana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Medical research indicates that breastfeeding suppresses post-natal fertility. We model the implications for … with birth order, since mothers near or beyond their desired total fertility are more likely to make use of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016242
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Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families?
Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Conventional wisdom suggests that in developed countries income and fertility are negatively correlated. We present new … evidence that between 2001 and 2009 the cross-sectional relationship between fertility and women's education in the U.S. is U … explaining the positive correlation between fertility and female labor supply along the educational gradient. In our model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321836
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More Schooling, More Children: Compulsory Schooling Reforms and Fertility in Europe
Fort, Margherita; Schneeweis, Nicole; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We study the relationship between education and fertility, exploiting compulsory schooling reforms in Europe as source …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009324255
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The Career Costs of Children
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Stevens, Katrien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility, occupational choice, and labor supply using detailed survey and …-female wage gap as it evolves from labor market entry onward and the effect of pro-fertility policies. We show that a substantial … portion of the gender wage gap is explainable by realized and expected fertility and that the long-run effect of policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009385756