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Being told the sex of your unborn child is a major exogenous 'shock'. In the first study of its kind, we collect before-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning child gender upon people's degree of risk-aversion. Using a standard Holt-Laury criterion, the...
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marriage or pregnancy, is responsible for women exiting the labor force upon motherhood. …
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trimester of pregnancy. The negative impact on cognitive skills and development is concentrated on lower-income children and …
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female workers come through longer unemployment instead of higher losses in wages. …
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lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …
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life and possibly also on wages. …
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Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of …
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market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW …) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick leave on employment and wages. Our findings do not provide much evidence … that employment or wages were significantly affected by the mandates which typically allow employees to earn one hour of …
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departure of wages and employment of low-skilled workers between Miami and its control after 1979. The result is robust to …
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the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
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