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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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Do empty beds cause cesarean deliveries?

Bachner, Florian; Halla, Martin; Pruckner, Gerald J. - 2024

We examine how the number of beds available in a maternity ward affects the likelihood of cesarean delivery and maternal health. Our analysis is based on administrative data from Austria. We exploit idiosyncratic daily variation in the occupancy of maternity hospital beds. We find that empty...

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Career, family, and IVF : the impact of involuntary childlessness and fertility treatment

Martinenghi, Fabio I.; Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2025

We use whole-population linked administrative data from Australia to ex- amine the economic and mental health impacts … of IVF treatment and invol- untary childlessness. Leveraging detailed information on fertility treatment, income, and …

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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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Do population control policies induce more human capital investment? : Twins, birthweight, and China's 'one child' policy

Rosenzweig, Mark R. (contributor); Zhang, Junsen (contributor) - 2006

In this paper we use a new data set describing households with and without twin children in China to quantify the trade-off between the quality and quantity of children using the incidence of twins that for the first time takes into account effects associated with the lower birthweight and...

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Making work pay : increasing labour supply of secondary earners in low income families with children

Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michał; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2015

employment incentives for secondary earners. This in turn reduces the potential of in-work support to address the joint …

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Taxing childcare : effects on childcare choices, family labor supply and children

Gathmann, Christina; Saß, Björn - 2017

effects on older siblings and fertility decisions show that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family …

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Free daycare and its effects on children and their families

Busse, Anna; Gathmann, Christina - 2018

open questions who responds to and who benefits from public investments into early childcare. We use the introduction of …

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Reducing the child penalty by incentivizing maternal part-time work?

Baertsch, Laurenz; Sandner, Malte - 2024

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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Taxing childcare : effects on family labor supply and children

Gathmann, Christina; Saß, Björn - 2012

Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...

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