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Reducing the child penalty by incentivizing maternal part-time work?
Baertsch, Laurenz; Sandner, Malte - 2024
Worldwide governments discuss how to increase maternal labor market participation and to reduce the child penalty, i.e. labor market earnings losses after child birth. This study analyses the long run effects of a German paid parental leave reform, which aims to increase maternal labour market...
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The effects of paternity leave on fertility and labor market outcomes
Farré, Lídia; González, Libertad - 2017
This paper studies the effects of a father quota in the parental leave period on households' labor market and fertility decisions. Identification is based on the 2007 reform of the Spanish family benefit system, which extended the sixteen weeks of paid parental leave by two additional weeks...
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Does paternity leave reduce fertility?
Farré, Lídia; González, Libertad - 2018
We find that the introduction of two weeks of paid paternity leave in Spain in 2007 led to delays in subsequent fertility. Following a regression discontinuity design and using rich administrative data, we show that parents who were (just) entitled to the new paternity leave took longer to have...
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Causes and consequences of a father's child leave : evidence from a reform of leave schemes
Nielsen, Helena Skyt - 2009
responsive intra-household leave-sharing is to changes in economic incentives. To investigate this fundamental question, we are … economic incentives are very important for intra-household leave-sharing. Increasing the couples' after tax income by $9 per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872699
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Changing fertility and heterogeneous motherhood effects : revisiting the effects of a parental benefits reform
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2024
Using a semiparametric event study approach with a control group, we estimate the effect of motherhood on labor market outcomes in Germany, the child penalty. We further investigate how the 2007 parental benefits reform changed the child penalty while accounting for fertility effects. A large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014527065
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Parental leave : a policy evaluation of the Swedish "daddy-month" reform
Ekberg, John (contributor); Eriksson, Rickard (contributor);  … - 2005
, mothers and fathers. We find strong short term effects of incentives on male parental leave. However, we find no learning … ; incentives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002852662
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Can reduced child support make joint custody bad for children? : the role of economic incentives in U.S. divorce law on child outcomes
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer; Sun, Hugette - 2018
This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child … support as those without custody. Merging family and child data from the SIPP with state-level data on economic incentives for … joint custody, we find that fathers' joint custody decisions are significantly affected by the incentives generated by …
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The fertility-sex ratio trade-off : unintended consequences of financial incentives
Anukriti, S - 2014
-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial incentives can overcome this trade-off in the context of … where the effects of incentives are determined by the strength of son preference, the cost of children, and the cost of sex …-selection, relative to the size of incentives. Second, I create a woman-year panel dataset from retrospective birth histories and use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258158
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010248828
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Financial incentives, the timing of births, birth complications, and newborns' health : evidence from the abolition of Austria’s baby bonus
Brunner, Beatrice; Kuhn, Andreas - 2011
We analyze the fertility and health effects resulting from the abolition of the Austrian baby bonus in January 1997. The abolition of the benefit was publicly announced about ten months in advance, creating the opportunity for prospective parents to (re-)schedule conceptions accordingly. We find...
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