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The Summer Drop in Female Employment
Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie - 2022
with cross-state differences in the timing of school closures, is concentrated among mothers with young school-age children … contribute to gender gaps in career choice and earnings: women−particularly those with young school-age children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082239
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Neither Backlash Nor Convergence : Dynamics of Intracouple Childcare Division after the First COVID-19 Lockdown and Subsequent Reopening in Germany
Boll, Christina; Müller, Dana; Schüller, Simone - 2021
during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the medium-term dynamics of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013226654
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Household models: an historical perspective
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2007
This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature's neglect of Samuelson's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264270
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615932
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Does Paternity Leave Promote Gender Equality within Households?
Gonzalez, Libertad; Zoabi, Hosny - 2021
more home production. As a result, the cost of raising children increases and fertility declines. Assuming a loss of … utility from children in the case of divorce, lower fertility increases the probability of divorce. Using Spanish data and RDD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311580
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Parental Time Restrictions and the Cost of Children : Insights from a Survey Among Mothers
Borah, Melanie - 2019
with children in Germany. Our study confirms that the monetary cost of children is substantial and increases with parental …In this paper, we provide estimates of the subjectively perceived cost of children depending on the extent of parental … sizeable for families with children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892262
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Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto Castro, Adrian; Tatsiramos, … - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an event-study design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082168
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Early Child Care and Labor Supply of Lower-Ses Mothers : A Randomized Controlled Trial
Hermes, Henning; Krauß, Marina; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2023
We present experimental evidence that enabling access to universal early child care for families with lower socioeconomic status (SES) increases maternal labor supply. Our intervention provides families with customized help for child care applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264150
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Parental Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 in Germany
Huebener, Mathias - 2020
We examine the differential effects of COVID-19 and related restrictions on individuals with dependent children in … Germany. We specifically focus on the role of school and day care center closures, which may be regarded as a “disruptive … 2020 in Germany, when schools and day care centers were closed but while other measures had been relaxed and new infections …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825395
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The Gender Gap in Informal Child Care : Theory and Some Evidence from Italy
Barigozzi, Francesca - 2019
the family. Parents can provide two types of informal child care: basic care (feeding, changing children, baby …-sitting) and quality care (activities that stimulate children's social and cognitive skills). We obtain the following main results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866363