light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare …

Exploiting the exogenous variation in childcare costs caused by a Swedish childcare reform, we are able to identify the … causal effect of childcare costs on fertility in a context in which childcare enrollment is almost universal, user fees are … low, and the labor force participation of mothers is very high. Anticipation of a reduction in childcare costs increased …

We employ bootstrap methods (Efron (1979)) to test the effect of an important electoral reform implemented in Italy … objectives of the reform) that remained unchanged at their pre-reform level. -- electoral system ; plurality rule ; Duverger …

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 the reform significantly affected the timing of higher-order births. Overall …, mothers "just" affected by the reform initially reduce subsequent childbearing and start to compensate by the end of the third …

regressions show that under divided government a US state is around 25% more likely to adopt a welfare reform than under unified …

variation in their implementation across regions and sectors for identification. We find that the reform of apprenticeship … productivity-enhancing effect. The reform of fixed-term contracts instead did not produce the intended results: it induced a …

outcomes to address this issue. Our application is based on a nationwide municipal electoral reform in Norway, which changed … the seat allocation method from d'Hondt to modified Sainte-Lagüe. Even though this electoral reform is of a relatively …

In 2001 and 2002, Sweden introduced several unemployment insurance reforms. A major innovation in the first reform was … compensation during the first 20 weeks of unemployment. The 2002 reform retained the two-tiered benefit structure but involved also …