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Is there still son preference in the United States?

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … associated with lower fertility, particularly for natives. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference in … fertility decisions appears to have been outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls or increased female …

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Fertility as a driver of maternal employment

Schmieder, Julia - 2020

positive effect of an instrument-induced increase in fertility on maternal employment driven by an increase in informal work …

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Parental income and child health in Germany

Reinhold, Steffen; Jürges, Hendrik - 2009

We use newly available data from Germany to study the relationship between parental income and child health. We find a strong gradient between parental income and subjective child health as has been documented earlier in the US, Canada and the UK. The relationship in Germany is about as strong...

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Age-specific effects of early daycare on children's health

Barschkett, Mara - 2022

Over the past decades, the share of very young children in daycare has increased significantly in many OECD countries, including Germany. Despite the relevance of child health for child development and later life success, the effect of early daycare attendance on health has received little...

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Building health across generations: Unraveling the impact of early childcare on maternal health

Barschkett, Mara; Bosque-Mercader, Laia - 2023

In contemporary households, women often shoulder most organisation and caregiving responsibilities leading them to play a crucial role in family dynamics. While previous research has established that public early childcare affects child outcomes and maternal employment, less attention has been...

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Smoke signals : the intergenerational transmission of smoking behavior

Bantle, Christian; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - 2002

In this paper, we investigate the intergenerational transmission of smoking behavior from parents to their children using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, surveyed in 1999 including 813 youths aged 16 through 19. We find strong evidence, that parental smoking significantly increases...

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Culture and gender allocation of tasks: Source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US-immigrants

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Comey, Matthew; … - 2020

There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In particular, we ask if US immigrants allocate tasks...

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The gender gap in lifetime earnings: The role of parenthood

Glaubitz, Rick; Harnack-Eber, Astrid; Wetter, Miriam - 2022

To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both the cross-sectional and biographical dimension of gender inequalities. Using an Oaxaca Blinder decomposition, we show that the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by...

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Parental leave benefits and child penalties

Waights, Sevrin - 2022

I use the universe of tax returns in Germany and a regression kink design to estimate the impact of the benefit amount available to high-earning women after their first childbirth on subsequent within-couple earnings inequality. Lower benefit amounts result in a reduced earnings gap that...

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Cracking under pressure? Gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in times of a pandemic

Danzer, Natalia; Huebener, Mathias; Pape, Astrid; … - 2021

This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of the pandemic. Using data on gender role...

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