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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Leave : Exploiting Forty Years of U.S. Policy Variation
Flores, Andrea M.; Gayle, George-Levi; Hincapié, Andrés - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
mobility in education, stems from heterogeneity in the effects of the policies: children of mothers with fewer years of … education benefit more. As a potential mechanism, we find that the policies increased mothers' time investments in children and … parental decisions (labor market, investments in children, and fertility). We merge rich sources of historical information on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437042
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Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs, Opioid Abuse, and Crime
Dave, Dhaval - 2018
We study the spillover effects of prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) on crime, and in the process inform how policies that restrict access to Rx opioids per se within the healthcare system would impact broader non-health domains. In response to the substantial increase in opioid use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480628
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Expanding Access to Clean Water for the Rural Poor : Experimental Evidence from Malawi
Dupas, Pascaline - 2020
children. The program is more effective and much more cost-effective than asking Community Health Workers (CHWs) to distribute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481425
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Do cross-national differences in the costs of children generate cross-national differences in fertility rates?
DiPrete, Thomas A.; Morgan, S. Philip; … - 2003
nation-specific costs of having children as measured by time-budget data, by attitude data from the International Social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011438624
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Gender Differences in (some) Formative Inputs to Child Development
Baker, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
, mothers in the US and Canada are more likely to experience depression post birth when the first born child is a boy. Perhaps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482600
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Childhood Health and Differences in Late-Life Health Outcomes Between England and the United States
Banks, James - 2011
In this paper we examine the link between retrospectively reported measures of childhood health and the prevalence of various major and minor diseases at older ages. Our analysis is based on comparable retrospective questionnaires placed in the Health and Retirement Study and the English...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461561
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(How) do the ECB and the Fed react to financial market uncertainty? : the Taylor rule in times of crisis
Belke, Ansgar; Klose, Jens - 2010
We assess differences that emerge in Taylor rule estimations for the Fed and the ECB before and after the start of the subprime crisis. For this purpose, we apply an explicit estimate of the equilibrium real interest rate and of potential output in order to account for variations within these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931051
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The pros and cons of sick pay schemes : testing for contagious presenteeism and shirking behavior
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2015
This paper proposes a test for the existence and degree of contagious presenteeism and negative externalities in sickness insurance schemes. First, we theoretically decompose moral hazard into shirking and contagious presenteeism behavior and derive testable conditions. Then, we implement the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339778
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Estimating and forecasting aggregate productivity growth trends in the US and Germany
Erber, Georg (contributor); Fritsche, Ulrich (contributor) - 2005
This paper addresses the issue of estimating and forecasting productivity growth trends in the US and Germany from the perspective of a business cycle researcher who wants to use the available information in time series of aggregate labor productivity to derive a model for short- and/or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002637885
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The Changing Structure of Wages in the US and Germany : What Explains the Differences?
Beaudry, Paul - 2000
Over the last twenty years the wage-education relationships in the US and Germany have evolved very differently, while the education composition of employment has evolved in a surprisingly parallel fashion. In this paper, we propose and test an explanation to these conflicting patterns. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471064