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with children and in more flexible occupations also tend to be more mismatched. Again, this is especially true of women … cohort, even as the new generation of women is doing better. …
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Decisions concerning marriage, fertility, participation, and the education of children are explained using a two … countries tend to get less education than boys of the same educational ability, and of why a substantial minority of women in …, and (iv) length and effective enforcement of compulsory education. The predictions are consistent with two empirical …
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and its heterogeneous effects on the labor market opportunities of men and women affected demographic behavior. We focus … there was no change in the overall fertility rate, marital fertility declined, and there was an increase in nonmarital … relative prospects of men may reduce their marriage-market value and affect marital and fertility behavior …
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There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household … female participation and fertility, using individual data from the French Labor Force Survey and a fairly detailed … fertility decisions in France, both for the first and for the third child. As an example, an unconditional child benefit with a …
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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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We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use … to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify the importance of these fertility adjustments for understanding the … longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms from 2009 to provide new empirical evidence on asymmetric fertility adjustments …
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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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In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits …
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We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...
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China has set to increase the minimum retirement age, to ease the pressure from pension expenditure and the falling labor supply caused by the aging population. However, policy debates have so far neglected the crucial fact that families in China largely rely on retired grandparents for...
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