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supply ; cognitive skills ; family policy ; Germany … older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members. -- childcare ; labor …
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“modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like …
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We model choices between caring for an infant at home or through some market provision of child care. Maternal labor supply necessitates child care purchased in the market. Households are distinguished along three dimensions: (i) Exogenous income, (ii) the wage rate of the primary care giver and...
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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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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 … in balancing family and work than parental leave payments. The welfare analysis shows that the introduction of subsidies …
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children growing up in households of different incomes, progressive childcare subsidies are the more efficient redistribution …
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parents inside the family. We use data from the World Value Survey to construct a country-specific measure of the value …
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We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by … causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and … penalty. Test score effects are positive for children aged 4-7 (substitution from grandparental to maternal care), and …
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This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefits on fertility. I use the unanticipated reform of 2007 to assess how a move from a means-tested to an earnings-related benefit affects higher-order births. By using data from the Mikrozensus, I find that...
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-related gender inequality in earnings and (ii) assesses the impact of family policies on this inequality. We present three sets of … findings. First, child penalties (i.e., the percentage of potential earnings lost due to children) have strongly increased over … sample period, the fraction of overall inequality attributed to children rose from 14% to 64%. This trend not only resulted …
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