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A forgotten issue : distributional effects of day care subsidies in Germany

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Spieß, C. Katharina; Wagner, Gert G. - 2000

In general child care subsidies are widely accepted as a means to create equal chances for mothers in the labour market as well as for children. Although there is a general consensus that the use of child care should be publicly supported, there is no consensus on how this should be done....

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Early child care and child outcomes : the role of grandparents

Del Boca, Daniela; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, … - 2014

In this paper, we focus on the impact of early grandparents' care on child cognitive outcomes, in the short and medium term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children looked after in a formal care centre, children cared by grandparents (as well as parents) are...

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Genes, legitimacy and hypergamy : another look at the economics of marriage

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009

In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...

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Intergenerational earnings mobility in Japan among sons and daughters : levels and trends

Lefranc, Arnaud; Ojima, Fumiaki; Yoshida, Takashi - 2012

This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between 1935 and 1975. Our estimates rely on a two-sample instrumental variables approach using representative data from the Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys,...

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Intergenerational earnings persistence and economic inequality in the long-run : evidence from French cohorts, 1931-1975

Lefranc, Arnaud - 2018

This paper analyzes long-term trends in intergenerational earnings persistence in France for male cohorts born between 1931 and 1975. This time period has witnessed important changes in the French labor market and educational system, in particular an important compression of earnings...

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Marital patterns and income inequality

Dupuy, Arnaud; Weber, Simon - 2018

We investigate the role of marital patterns in explaining rising income inequality using a structural marriage matching model with unobserved heterogeneity. This allows us to consider both the extensive and intensive margins of the marriage market, i.e. who remains single and who marries whom....

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Keeping up with the Jansens : causal peer effects on household spending, beliefs and happiness

Rooij, Maarten van; Coibion, Olivier; Georgarakos, Dimitris - 2024

How strong are peer effects on the beliefs and spending decisions of individuals? We use a randomized control study in which treated households are told about either average income or debt of individuals like them to assess how peer effects influence their beliefs and spending. The information...

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Brother correlations in earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden compared to the United States

Björklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jäntti, Markus; … - 2000

The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful "omnibus measure" of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother correlations in long-run (permanent) earnings between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic...

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How do parents allocate time? : the effects of wages and income

Bloemen, Hans G. (contributor); … - 2008

simultaneously specifies three time-use choices - paid work, childcare, and housework - and wage and employment equations for each … changes in own wage. The own-wage elasticity of housework is negative while childcare does not react to changes in own wage …. Women's non-market time is independent of their husband's wage; but both housework and childcare of fathers react positively …

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An empirical analysis of the time allocation of Italian couples : are Italian men irresponsive?

Bloemen, Hans G. (contributor); Pasqua, Silvia (contributor) - 2008

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … is significantly negative for housework of women. Childcare time of fathers increases with own wage and with the presence …

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