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The effect of investment in children's education on fertility in 1816 Prussia
Becker, Sascha O.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
The interaction between investment in children's education and parental fertility is crucial in recent theories of the … significant negative causal effect of education on fertility, which is robust to accounting for spatial autocorrelation. The …
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Three Family Policies to Reconcile Fertility and Labor Supply
Fenge, Robert; Stadler, Lisa - 2014
In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …
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The effect of long-term-care subsidies on female labor supply and fertility
Korn, Evelyn; Wrede, Matthias - 2012
Fertility and the provision of long-term care are connected by an aspect that has not received attention so far: both …'s fertility as well as their labor supply when young are affected by such policies. The overall effect can be decomposed into an … opportunity-cost effect and a consumption-smoothing effect that each impact fertility as well as labor supply in opposite …
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Froebel's Gifts: How the Kindergarten Movement Changed the American Familiy
Ager, Philipp; Cinnirella, Francesco - 2020
household outcomes. We find that in cities with a larger kindergarten exposure, families significantly reduced fertility, with …. Households reduced fertility because kindergarten attendance increased returns to education, but it also led to higher …
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The intergenerational transmission of risk and trust attitudes
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Huffman, David - 2008
Recent theoretical contributions depart from the usual practice of treating individual attitude endowments as a black box, by assuming that these are shaped by the attitudes of parents and other role models. Attitudes include fundamental preferences such as risk preference, and crucial beliefs...
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Taxation and Parental Time Allocation under Different Assumptions on Altruism
Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2014
In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...
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Modes of Child Care
Glomm, Gerhard; Meier, Volker - 2016
We model choices between caring for an infant at home or through some market provision of child care. Maternal labor supply necessitates child care purchased in the market. Households are distinguished along three dimensions: (i) Exogenous income, (ii) the wage rate of the primary care giver and...
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Sibling Spillovers
Black, Sandra E.; Breining, Sanni; Figlio, David N.; … - 2017
It is notoriously difficult to identify peer effects within the family, because of the common shocks and reflection problems. We make use of a novel identification strategy and unique data in order to gain some purchase on this problem. We employ data from the universe of children born in...
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International Family Migration and the Dual-Earner Model
Munk, Martin D.; Nikolka, Till; Poutvaara, Panu - 2017
Gender differences in labor force participation are exceptionally small in Nordic countries. We investigate how couples emigrating from Denmark self-select and sort into different destinations and whether couples pursue the dual-earner model, in which both partners work, when abroad. Female...
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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families
Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019
We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....
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