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The effects of large universal child benefits on female labour supply
Magda, Iga; Kiełczewska, Aneta; Brandt, Nicola - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881213
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The parenthood penalty in mental health : evidence from Austria and Denmark
Ahammer, Alexander; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Halla, Martin; … - 2023
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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Does cutting child benefits reduce fertility in larger families? : evidence from the UK’s two-child limit
Reader, Mary; Portes, Jonathan; Patrick, Ruth - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172871
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Female self-employment and children : the case of Sweden
Andersson Joona, Pernilla - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408826
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Parental leave, (in)formal childcare and long-term child outcomes
Danzer, Natalia; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664516
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Can reduced child support make joint custody bad for children? : the role of economic incentives in U.S. divorce law on child outcomes
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer; Sun, Hugette - 2018
This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child … support as those without custody. Merging family and child data from the SIPP with state-level data on economic incentives for … joint custody, we find that fathers' joint custody decisions are significantly affected by the incentives generated by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955833
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The effect of children on the level of labor market involvement of married women : what is the role of education?
Troske, Kenneth R.; Voicu, Alexandru - 2009
propose an econometric model that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, for the heterogeneity … of the effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and for the correlation of sequential … ; education ; endogenous fertility decisions ; heterogeneous children effects ; multinomial probit model ; Gibbs sampler …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003826112
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The effect of the timing and spacing of births on the level of labor market involvement of married women
Troske, Kenneth R.; Voicu, Alexandru - 2009
women in a framework that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, the heterogeneity of the … effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and the correlation of sequential labor market … part time jobs. Individual heterogeneity plays an important role in the relationship between labor market and fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898126
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We … of immigrants to native levels of schooling, fertility, and labor supply across generations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388335
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Changing fertility and heterogeneous motherhood effects : revisiting the effects of a parental benefits reform
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2024
outcomes in Germany, the child penalty. We further investigate how the 2007 parental benefits reform changed the child penalty … while accounting for fertility effects. A large novel data set linking data from two administrative sources provides … positive medium-run effects employment outcomes. It changes the selection into fertility and shows heterogeneous effects …
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