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The Effect of Child Care on Family Structure : Theory and Evidence

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2012

This paper studies the effect of child care provision on family structure. We present a model of a marriage market with positive assortative matching, where in equilibrium the poorest women stay single. Couples have to decide on the number of children and spousal specialization in home...

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The Influence of Child Care on Maternal Health and Mother-Child Interaction

Kroell, Alexandra; Borck, Rainald - 2021

In Germany, formal child care coverage rates have increased markedly over the past few decades. The present paper is concerned with how mothers’ mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not. Furthermore, the effects of formal child care...

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Adieu Rabenmutter - The Effect of Culture on Fertility, Female Labour Supply, the Gender Wage Gap and Childcare

Borck, Rainald - 2021

This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively … a model with endogenous fertility, female labour supply and childcare choices which fits these facts. There may exist …

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Federalism, Fertility and Growth

Borck, Rainald - 2021

This paper analyses the effect of federalism on fertility and growth. In a model with human capital accumulation and endogenous fertility, two regimes of education finance are compared: central and local education. Using numerical simulation, I find that local education finance yields higher...

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Adieu Rabenmutter - The Effect of Culture on Fertility, Female Labour Supply, the Gender Wage Gap and Childcare

Borck, Rainald - CESifo - 2011

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The Geography of Natural Resources, Ethnic Inequality and Development

Lessmann, Christian - 2017

We study whether the spatial distribution of natural resources across different ethnic groups within countries impede spatial inequality, national economic performance, and the incidence of armed conflict. By providing a theoretical rent-seeking model and analysing a set of geocoded data for...

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Aid, Growth and Devolution

Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2021

This paper examines whether the federal structure of aid-receiving countries matters in explaining aid effectiveness. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision-makers are better informed about local needs. At the same...

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