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Financial support for families with children and its trade-offs : balancing redistribution and parental work incentives

Myck, Michał; Kurowska, Anna; Kundera, Michał - 2013

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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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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664517

Free daycare and its effects on children and their families

Busse, Anna; Gathmann, Christina - 2018

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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Taxing childcare : effects on family labor supply and children

Gathmann, Christina; Saß, Björn - 2012

older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members. -- childcare ; labor … supply ; cognitive skills ; family policy ; Germany …

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Increasing women's empowerment: implications for family welfare

Ambler, Kate; Jones, Kelly; O'Sullivan, Michael - 2021

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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Does broadband internet affect fertility?

Billari, Francesco C.; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2017

-fertility setting, which is well-known for the difficulty to combine work and family life. We exploit a strategy devised by Falck et al …

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The impact of family co-residence and childcare on children's cognitive skill

Deng, Lanfang; Li, Haizheng; Liu, Zhiqiang - 2019

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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Paid parental leave and families' living arrangements

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Kühnle, Daniel; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2018

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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Inter-spousal communication in consanguineous marriages : evidence from Egypt

Rajan, Aastha; Naufal, George - 2018

nationally representative sample of young married respondents in Egypt. Using a variety of estimation techniques, the results …

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Peer effects in parental leave decisions

Welteke, Clara; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2016

This paper analyzes to what extent parental leave decisions of mothers with young children depend on the decisions made by their coworkers. The identification of peer effects, which are defined as indirect effects of the behavior of a social reference group on individual outcomes, bears various...

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