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female labor supply and fertility. However, particularly in the last decade or so, the relationship across countries has been … positive: for example countries like Germany, Italy and Spain with the lowest fertility rates also have the lowest female … female labor supply and higher fertility. These results are strengthened when we take account of the heterogeneity among …
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fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for the second and every further child and means …-tested for the first child. Increasing out-of-work income significantly, the transfer can reduce incentives to participate in the …
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Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health. Parenthood imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). These...
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Worldwide governments discuss how to increase maternal labor market participation and to reduce the child penalty, i.e. labor market earnings losses after child birth. This study analyses the long run effects of a German paid parental leave reform, which aims to increase maternal labour market...
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low income families. Our results imply that the main impact of cuts to child benefits is not to reduce fertility but to … fertility of third and subsequent births. As of April 2017, all third and subsequent born children to low-income families in the … UK did not receive means-tested child benefits, amounting to a reduction in income relative to the previous system of …
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Previous studies, mostly from Anglo-Saxon countries, find a positive correlation between the presence of young children in the household and self-employment probabilities among women. This has been seen as an indication of women with young children choosing self-employment as a way of balancing...
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We provide a novel interpretation of the estimated treatment effects from evaluations of parental leave reforms. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child outcomes and potential mediators. We evaluate a large and generous parental leave extension in...
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children's fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We … retirement affects only the timing of adult children's fertility, without having an effect on total fertility. …
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The total fertility rate is well below its replacement level of 2.1 children in high-income countries. Why do women … choose such low fertility levels? We study how labor market frictions affect the fertility of college-educated women. We …-shift schedules increase the completed fertility of college-educated from 1.52 to 1.88. These reforms enable women to have more …
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This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly … focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable …. We find that fertility causally affects female labor supply. After the first twin birth, female labor supply declines …
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