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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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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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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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Fathers, parental leave and gender norms

Unterhofer, Ulrike; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2017

Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in parental leave schemes. In this paper, we analyze whether...

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The importance of mothers-in-law's employment for their daughter-in-law's labour market outcomes in West Germany: Results and mechanisms

Schmitz, Sophia; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2021

Social norms have been put forward as prominent explanations for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational formation of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early...

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Extreme weather events and child height: Evidence from Mongolia

Groppo, Valeria; Schindler, Kati - 2014

We provide new evidence on the impact of one severe weather shock on child height in Mongolia. Our focus is on the extremely harsh winter - locally referred to as dzud - of 2009/10, which caused more than 23 percent of the national livestock to perish. This resulted in a food insecurity...

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Pandemic depression: COVID-19 and the mental health of the self-employed

Caliendo, Marco; Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022

We investigate the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on self-employed people's mental health. Using representative longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a substantial deterioration in their mental health,...

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Income-based family typology and child development: Evidence from the UK

Meroni, Elena Claudia; Verga, Francesca - 2023

Our paper contributes to the literature studying how household conditions can influence children's development, focusing on the type of family model where children grow up, defined on the basis of parental employment status and relative earnings. The traditional "male-breadwinner" model is no...

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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016

Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019

We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...

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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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