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The difficult case of persuading women : experimental evidence from childcare

Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2013

Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...

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Mothers' care : reversing early childhood health shocks through parental investments

Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; Cabrales, Antonio; … - 2019

We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are...

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Roles of social conformity in deviance in poverty : a study on working poverty and educational investment in Bangladesh

Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - 2013

despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty … though social deviance in acquiring education can throw subjects into abject poverty. In particular, the paper examines the …In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty …

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Behind the child penalty : understanding what contributes to the labour market costs of motherhood

Casarico, Alessandra; Lattanzio, Salvatore - 2021

We study the short- and long-run impact of motherhood on labour market outcomes and explore the individual and firm …

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The parenthood penalty in mental health : evidence from Austria and Denmark

Ahammer, Alexander; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Halla, Martin; … - 2023

Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health. Parenthood imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). These...

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The willingness to pay for job amenities : evidence from mothers' return to work

Felfe, Christina - 2009

This study is the first to estimate mother's marginal willingness to pay (MWP) for job amenities directly. Its identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can decide whether and when to return to their guaranteed...

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The employment of mothers : recent developments and their determinants in East and West Germany

Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2010

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences...

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Work and wage dynamics around childbirth

Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - 2012

This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...

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The influence of child care on maternal health and mother-child interaction

Kröll, Alexandra; Borck, Rainald - 2013

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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Home with mom : the effects of stay-at-home parents on children's long-run educational outcomes

Bettinger, Eric; Haegeland, Torbjørn; Rege, Mari - 2013

In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that increased parents' incentives to stay home with children under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long-run educational outcomes of the older siblings. Using...

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