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The baby year parental leave reform in the GDR and its impact on children's long-term life satisfaction
Heisig, Katharina; Zierow, Larissa - 2019
children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic Republic (GDR … positive parental leave effects on life satisfaction. We also analyze whether the increase in life satisfaction is driven by a … in life satisfaction might be partially explained by personality development for individuals from low socioeconomic …
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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
We study the effect of institutional childcare on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening of childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...
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Three family policies to reconcile fertility and labor supply
Fenge, Robert; Stadler, Lisa - 2014
, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children …
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The effect of child care costs on gender inequality
Casarico, Alessandra; Del Rey, Elena; Silva, José Ignacio - 2022
We develop a model to study the impact on gender gaps in participation and wages of a liquidity constraint that prevents some households from paying child care. We show that this liquidity constraint generates an inefficiency and amplifies gender gaps in the labour market. In this framework, an...
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Taxation and parental time allocation under different assumptions on altruism
Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2014
reduction in parental time devoted to children, which modifies their human capital accumulation process. We show that the result … critically depends on the assumptions on the altruistic motives behind the choice of devoting time to children. …
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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 …
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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...
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Does paternity leave promote gender equality within households?
González, 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 …
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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/10012515089
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The long-term impact of paid parental leave on maternal health and subjective well-being
Heisig, Katharina - 2023
This paper studies the long-term impact of a paid parental leave reform in former East Germany in 1986 on maternal …-term physical and mental health and subjective well-being. There is weak, but not robust, evidence for increased satisfaction with …
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