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Workplace breastfeeding and maternal employment

Heckl, Pia; Wurm, Elisabeth - 2024 - This version: July 2024

This paper investigates the impact of workplace breastfeeding laws on the labor supply of mothers. We exploit a unique … room for women to express milk or breastfeed. Our results show an increase in breastfeeding initiation and the probability … that a child was breastfed at three and six months after birth. We find that workplace breastfeeding significantly increase …

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Do social policies harm employment and growth?

Ploeg, Frederick van der - 2003

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Voluntary public unemployment insurance

Parsons, Donald O.; Tranæs, Torben; Lilleør, Helene Bie - 2003

Voluntary public unemployment systems are limited to a handful of countries, including Finland, Sweden, and, more substantially, Denmark. A voluntary system has the positive feature of other user-cost schemes, potentially efficient targeting of services. This presumes rational behavior as well...

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Should we subsidize longevity?

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Gregory - 2009

This paper studies the design of the optimal non linear taxation in an economy where longevity varies across agents, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and genes are correlated, governmental intervention can be...

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The relationship between stature and insolation : evidence from soldiers and prisoners

Carson, Scott Alan - 2009

Nineteenth century white US statures varied with nutrition, disease exposure, and the physical environment. An additional explanation for stature growth is vitamin D production. Vitamin D is produced internally by the synthesis of cholesterol and sunlight in the epidermis. However, studies that...

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Nineteenth century US African-American and white female statures : insight from US prison records

Carson, Scott Alan - 2010

Using a new source of 19th century state prison records, this study contrasts the biological living conditions of comparable US African-American and white female statures during economic development. Black and white female statures varied regionally, and white Southeastern and black Southwestern...

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Effects of prenatal and early life malnutrition : evidence from the Greek famine

Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 2010

This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...

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Nineteenth century stature and family size : binding constraint or productive labor force?

Carson, Scott Alan - 2010

The use of height data to measure living standards is now a well-established method in economics. Nevertheless, a neglected area in historical stature studies is the relationship between stature and family size, and statures are documented here to be positively related with family size. The...

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Does cost sharing really reduce inappropriate prescriptions?

Costa-Font, Joan; Gemmill-Toyama, Marin - 2010

This paper explores different empirical strategies to examine the effect of cost sharing for prescription drugs in some dimensions of medication-related quality, namely the probability of inappropriate prescription drug use among United States seniors. Using data from 1996 to 2005, we explore...

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The trend of BMI values by centiles of US adults, birth cohorts 1882 - 1986

Komlos, John; Brabec, Marek - 2010

Trends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by ethnicity. The highest centile increased by some 18 to 22 units in the course of the century while the lowest ones increased by merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution...

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