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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...

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Fertility and Family Labor Supply

Jakobsen, Katrine Marie; Jørgensen, Thomas; Low, Hamish - 2022

We study the role of fertility adjustments for the labor market responsiveness of men and women. First, we use … longitudinal Danish register data and tax reforms from 2009 to provide new empirical evidence on asymmetric fertility adjustments … to tax changes of men and women. Second, we quantify the importance of these fertility adjustments for understanding the …

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Fertility Cost, Intergenerational Labor Division, and Female Employment

Yu, Haiyue - 2019

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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Universal Childcare for the Youngest and the Maternal Labour Supply

Kunze, Astrid - 2019

In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit a nationwide reform that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in...

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Beliefs About Maternal Labor Supply

Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Kaufmann, Katja; Rauh, … - 2023

This paper provides representative evidence on the perceived returns to maternal labor supply. We design a novel survey to elicit subjective expectations, and show that a mother’s decision to work is perceived to have sizable impacts on child skills, family outcomes, and the future labor...

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Spillover Effects of Old-Age Pension Across Generations : Family Labor Supply and Child Outcomes

Kaufmann, Katja; Özdemir, Yasemin; Ye, Han - 2022

We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members’ labor supply and child outcomes by exploiting a Dutch pension reform in a fuzzy Regression Discontinuity design. A one-hour increase in grandmothers’ hours worked causes adult daughters with young children to work...

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To work or not to work? The effect of child-care subsidies on the labour supply of parents

Kosonen, Tuomas - 2013

This paper studies the effect of child-care subsidies on parental labour supply. I use variation arising from changes in the municipality-specific supplement to Finnish child homecare allowance to identify the causal effect of subsidies on the labour force participation of parents. The variation...

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Cracking Under Pressure? Gender Role Attitudes Toward Maternal Employment in Times of a Pandemic

Weißhaar, Natalia; Huebener, Mathias; Spiess, C. Katharina - 2021

This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of the pandemic. Using data on gender role...

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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...

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The Summer Drop in Female Employment

Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie - 2022

We provide the first systematic account of summer declines in women’s labor market activity. From May to July, the employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women’s total hours worked fall by 11 percent, twice...

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