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The impact of eliminating a child benefit on birth timing and infant health

Borra, Cristina; González, Libertad; Sevilla, Almudena - 2014

We study the effects of the cancellation of a sizeable child benefit in Spain on birth timing and neonatal health. In May 2010, the government announced that a 2,500-euro universal "baby bonus" would stop being paid to babies born on or after January 1st, 2011. We use detailed micro data from...

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Gender, time-use, and fertility recovery in industrialized countries

García-Manglano, Javier; Nollenberger, Natalia; … - 2014

This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed … decades of unprecedented fertility decline in the industrialized world, only a handful of countries in the West exhibit … replacement fertility rates - around two children per woman. Paradoxically, birth rates are substantially lower in countries in …

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Does the child penalty strike twice, and if so why?

Gørtz, Mette; Sander, Sarah; Sevilla, Almudena - 2023

This paper compares the labor market impact of grandparents before and after the arrival of the first grandchild. We show that grandmothers' labor market outcomes decline more steeply than grandfathers' after the first grandchild's arrival, leading to a 4-10 percent gender earnings gap 5-10...

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Economic conditions, parental employment and health of newborns

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Paul, Alexander Gabriel; … - 2018

this we use merged population-wide registers on health and economic and demographic variables, including the national … possible selective fertility based on labor market conditions. We find that downturns are beneficial; for example, a one …

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The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016

Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...

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Economic conditions at birth and cardiovascular disease risk in adulthood : evidence from new cohorts

Alessie, Rob; Angelini, Viola; Berg, Gerard J. van den; … - 2017

Most of the literature that exploits business cycle variation at birth to study long-run effects of economic conditions on health later in life is based on pre-1940 birth cohorts. They were born in times where social safety nets were largely absent and they grew up in societies with relatively...

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Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch Hunger Winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes

Scholte, Robert S.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, … - 2012

on labor market outcomes and hospitalization, and the first to use register data covering the full Dutch population to …

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A general semiparametric approach to inference with marker-dependent hazard rate models

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Janys, Lena; Mammen, Enno; … - 2014

We examine a new general class of hazard rate models for survival data, containing a parametric and a nonparametric component. Both can be a mix of a time effect and (possibly time-dependent) marker or covariate effects. A number of well-known models are special cases. In a counting process...

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Parental time investments in children : the role of competition for university places in the UK

Sevilla, Almudena; Borra, Cristina - 2015

We use novel diary surveys coupled with universities' administrative student data for the last three decades to document that increased competition for university places at elite institutions in the United Kingdom contributes to explain growing gaps in time investments between college and...

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Economic conditions at birth, birth weight, ability, and the causal path to cardiovascular mortality

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Modin, Bitte - 2013

. This is not explained by differential fertility by social class over the cycle. Ability itself, as measured at age 10 …

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