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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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Gender differences in the distribution of total work-time of Latin-American families : the importance of social norms
Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - 2015
We analyze differences by gender in the time dedicated to total work (paid and unpaid) by families in Latin America, with particular attention to the effect of social norms. To this end, we use survey data on time use in Mexico (2009), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012) and Colombia (2012), to estimate...
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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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Does income taxation affect partners’ household chores?
Soest, Arthur van; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2010
the financial incentives. Women's time allocation is more responsive to the own and the partner’s wage rate than men …
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Her time, his time, or the maid's time : an analysis of the demand for domestic work
Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2010
This paper analyzes households' demand for time inputs to domestic services, modeling simultaneously the decision to purchase services in the market and the time spent on weekend and weekday days by each partner on routine household chores. By focusing on cleaning, laundry, and ironing, we...
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Joint leisure before and after retirement : a double regression discontinuity approach
Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Soest, Arthur van - 2012
In the scant literature on partners' joint retirement decisions one of the explanations for joint retirement is externalities in leisure. In this study, we investigate how retirement affects the hours of leisure together of individuals in a couple. Exploiting the law on retirement age in France,...
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Retirement and home production : a regression discontinuity approach
Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Soest, Arthur van - 2011
Existing studies show that individuals who retire replace some private consumption by home production, but do not consider joint behaviour of couples. Here we analyze the causal effect of retirement of each partner on hours of home production of both partners in a couple. Our identification...
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Household consumption at retirement : a regression discontinuity study on French data
Moreau, Nicolas; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2013
Earlier literature has investigated the drop in household consumption upon retirement of the head of the household, the so-called "retirement consumption puzzle". Here, we expand on these studies by considering also retirement of the wife, thus distinguishing households in which the wife is a...
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Marital status and retirement : an empirical study for France
Doorley, Karina; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2019
We argue that retirement from work may affect marital status according to the predictions of quite standard economic models of marriage and divorce. Retirement may make singles less marriageable as well as impacting negatively marriage stability for married people. We exploit retirement laws in...
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