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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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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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Gender stereotypes in the family

Nicoletti, Cheti; Sevilla, Almudena; Tonei, Valentina - 2022

We study whether and why parents have gender-stereotyped beliefs when they assess their child's skills. Exploiting systematic differences in parental beliefs about a child's skills and blindly graded standardized test scores, we find that parents overestimate boys' skills more so than girls' in...

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Flexible working and couples' coordination of time schedules

Bryan, Mark L.; Sevilla, Almudena - 2014

Using previously unexploited data on time scheduling in the employment and household contexts, we investigate the effect of flexible working on couples' coordination of their daily work time schedules in the UK. We consider three distinct dimensions of flexible working: flexibility of daily...

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Effort at work and worker well-being in the US

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2022

This paper analyses detailed 24-hour diary data from the United States to provide evidence on the relationship between workers' effort and well-being while at work. In doing so, we first measure workers' effort in terms of its timing, its nature, and its composition. Second, we link these three...

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Work effort in the UK : trends and explanations

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Sevilla, Almudena - 2022

This paper links detailed 24-hour diary surveys in the United Kingdom (UK) over the last four decades to provide evidence on the increase in work effort in three specific dimensions: timing, nature, and composition. We rule out possible explanations behind these trends, finding that the decrease...

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Baby steps: the gender division of childcare during the COVID-19 pandemic

Sevilla, Almudena; Smith, Sarah - 2020

The COVID19 pandemic has caused shocks to the demand for home childcare (with the closure of schools and nurseries) and the supply of home childcare (with many people not working). We collect real-time data on daily lives to document that UK families with young children have been doing the...

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The gendered division of paid and domestic work under lockdown

Andrew, Alison; Cattan, Sarah; Dias, Mónica Costa; … - 2020

COVID-19 has uprooted many aspects of parents' daily routines, from their jobs to their childcare arrangements. In this paper, we provide a novel description of how parents in England living in two-parent opposite-gender families are spending their time under lockdown. We find that mothers' paid...

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