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This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal … the pandemic. Using data on gender role attitudes from 2008 through 2021, we find that fathers’ egalitarian attitudes … suggest that the pandemic not only affected the short-term allocation of housework and childcare, but also reversed recent …
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effect of COVID-19 on the working arrangements, housework and childcare of couples where both partners work. ties. According … more time on housework than before. The link between time devoted to childcare and working arrangements is more symmetric …
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Bavaria. Exploiting an open-list electoral system, we run RDD regressions centered around mixed-gender races for the last … council seat that accrues to a party. We find that a female victory in a mixed-gender race accelerates the expansion of public …
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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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bucket” to compare the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and of the income-contingent tax and transfer … schedule. We set up a dynamic structural model of heterogeneous households choosing their childcare demand and maternal labor … supply. Allowing for the availability of informal childcare and for consumption of leisure, we estimate this model within the …
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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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substantially improves intra-household gender equality in terms of child care duties and earnings. …
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We develop a model to study the impact on gender gaps in participation and wages of a liquidity constraint that … gender gaps in the labour market. In this framework, an extension of paid maternity leave duration has ambiguous effects on … gender inequality. In contrast, child care subsidies, which require higher taxes, and loans, which do not, unambiguously …
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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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Public child care is expected to assist families in reconciling work with family life. Yet, empirical evidence for the relevance of public child care to maternal employment is inconclusive. We exploit the introduction of a legal claim to a place in kindergarten in Germany, which was contingent...
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