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Taxing Childcare : Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children

Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2021

Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...

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Fertility, Female Labor Supply, and Family Policy

Fehr, Hans - 2011

in-kind benefits which reduce the time cost of children. Then we simulate alternative reforms of the tax and the child … results: First, policies which simply increase the family budget either via higher transfers (direct or in-kind) or via family … structure or a move towards individual taxation combined with an increase in in-kind benefits may achieve both goals and …

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Gender Power, Fertility, and Family Policy

Kemnitz, Alexander - 2012

The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the spouses' welfare function, this shift in power may lead to a time consistency problem. The allocation of resources after the birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal...

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Families and Social Security

Fehr, Hans - 2016

The present paper quantifies the importance of family insurance for the analysis of social security. We therefore augment the standard overlapping generations model with idiosyncratic labor productivity and longevity risk in that we account for gender and marital status. We simulate the...

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Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?

Laroque, Guy - 2008

There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household level. We put forward an identification strategy that relies on the fact that variation of wages induces variation in benefits and tax credits among quot;comparablequot;...

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Three Family Policies to Reconcile Fertility and Labor Supply

Fenge, Robert - 2014

In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children, the secondary earner's labor supply and welfare....

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Children of a (Policy) Revolution : The Introduction of Universal Child Care and Its Effect on Fertility

Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2014

What role does affordable and widely available public child care play for fertility? We exploit a major German reform generating large temporal and spatial variation in child care coverage for children under the age of three. Our precise and robust estimates on birth register data reveal that...

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Clash of Career and Family : Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement

Bono, Emilia Del - 2014

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a consequence of job displacement. Using an event study approach we compare the birth rates of displaced women with those of women unaffected by job loss after establishing the...

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Is Universal Child Care Leveling the Playing Field?

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2021

Many developed countries currently consider a move towards a universal child care program. The challenge in assessing the case for universal child care programs is that the evidence base is scarce. We analyze the staged expansion of subsidized, universally accessible child care in Norway. Our...

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Fertility, Human Capital Accumulation, and the Pension System

Cremer, Helmuth; Gahvari, Firouz; Pestieau, Pierre - 2021

This paper provides a unified treatment of externalities associated with fertility and human capital accumulation as they relate to pension systems. It considers as overlapping generations model in which every generation consists of high earners and low earners with the proportion of types being...

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