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Increasing women's empowerment is a key objective of many development programs, both as a principal goal and as a path to economic development. We propose and test a novel economic intervention that relies on intra-household transfers of productive assets to increase women's empowerment among...
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We investigate the impact of family co-residence structure and the allocation of major childcare responsibility across …. Moreover, we find that the effect of family environment differs between boys and girls. Girls from multigenerational families … factors as potential operating mechanisms in explaining our findings indicates that the influences of family environment are …
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We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Combining a regression discontinuity with a difference-in-differences design, we find...
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consequences of family support policy and stress the need for well-defined policy goals and careful analysis ahead of any reform. …
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effects on older siblings and fertility decisions show that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family …
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Many governments invest substantial public funds to foster early childhood education. And yet, there are still many open questions who responds to and who benefits from public investments into early childcare. We use the introduction of free public daycare in German states to analyze its effects...
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assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the …
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Many countries offer new parents long periods of paid leave. Proponents argue that parental leave programs can reduce gender gaps in the labor market, support marital stability and promote children's well-being. In this paper, I show that lengthy leaves can instead work against several of these...
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theories is that they view factors that determine the compatibility of women's career and family goals as key drivers of … fertility. We highlight four factors that facilitate combining a career with a family: family policy, cooperative fathers …
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In this study we provide a new examination of the incentive effects of welfare rules on family structure. Focusing on … family is treated. In an empirical analysis conducted over the period 1996 to 2004 that correctly matches family structure … outcomes to welfare rules, we find significant effects of several welfare policies on family structure, both work …
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