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From local to global : external validity in a fertility natural experiment
Dehejia, Rajeev H.; Pop-Eleches, Christian; Samii, Cyrus - 2015
Experimental evidence on a range of interventions in developing countries is accumulating rapidly. Is it possible to extrapolate from an experimental evidence base to other locations of policy interest (from "reference" to "target" sites)? And which factors determine the accuracy of such an...
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Public child care and mothers' labor supply : evidence from two quasi-experiments
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Schlotter, Martin - 2013
in kindergarten in Germany, which was contingent on day-of-birth cut-off dates and resulted in a marked increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009728256
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Social assistance and labour supply
Christofidēs, Loizos N. - 1999
The longitudinal, 1988-89, LMAS makes it possible to study the interaction between social assistance and labour supply while allowing for substantial time dependence. Tobit equations for hours worked on and off social assistance, which allow for endoge nous selection of social assistance status,...
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Labor market effects of a minimum wage : evidence from Ecuadorian monthly administrative data
Choi, Jaerim; Rivadeneyra, Ivan; Ramirez, Kenia - 2021
wage bin throughout the monthly wage distribution. We find that, after one month, wages increased by 17 to 37 percent for …
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Estimating incentive and welfare effects of non-stationary unemployment benefits
Launov, Andrey; Wälde, Klaus - 2010
aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … effort ; matching model ; structural estimation ; Semi-Markov process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003974164
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Taxing childcare : effects on family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Saß, Björn - 2012 - This version: March, 2012
supply ; cognitive skills ; family policy ; Germany …
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Female labor supply and parental leave benefits : the causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time
Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009
We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects. -- Female labor supply ; fertility ; child subsidy ; parents money
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Reforms of an early retirement pathway in Germany and their labor market effects
Riphahn, Regina T.; Schrader, Rebecca - 2021
We investigate the unemployment pathway to retirement in Germany and study the causal effects of two early retirement …
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Early child care and labor supply of lower-SES mothers : a randomized controlled Trial
Hermes, Henning; Krauß, Marina; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2022
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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Work and wage dynamics around childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - 2012
data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for … identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative … family gap. -- wages ; parental leave ; human capital ; return to work ; non-random selection …
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