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Family and labor market choices : requirements to guide effective evidence-based policy

Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michał; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2012

assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the … policy making with the aim to reconcile the objectives of increasing female participation and fertility and reducing poverty … levels among families with children. -- microsimulation ; labor supply ; fertility ; evidence-based policy …

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Behavioral barriers and the socioeconomic gap in child care enrollment

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Peter, Frauke; … - 2021

Children with lower socioeconomic status (SES) tend to benefit more from early child care, but are substantially less likely to be enrolled. We study whether reducing behavioral barriers in the application process increases enrollment in child care for lower-SES children. In our RCT in Germany...

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Financial support for families with children and its trade-off s balancing redistribution and parental work incentives

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

poverty, low female employment and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. We demonstrate the complexity of potential …

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Long run effects of universal childcare on personality traits

Bach, Maximilian; Koebe, Josefine; Peter, Frauke - 2019

Although universal childcare has become an essential tool to support child development, few economic studies analyze its effects on non-cognitive skills and little is known about causal effects on these skills in the long run. In this paper we go beyond short run analyses and examine the long...

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Paid parental leave and child development : evidence from the 2007 German parental benefit reform and administrative data

Huebener, Mathias; Kuehnle, Daniel; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2017

This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth....

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Cracking under pressure? : gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in times of a pandemic

Danzer, Natalia; Huebener, Mathias; Pape, Astrid; … - 2021

This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of the pandemic. Using data on gender role...

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The impact of the length of schooling on the timing of family formation

Koebe, Josefine; Marcus, Jan - 2020

Individuals typically traverse several life phases before forming a family. We analyse whether changing the duration of one of these phases, the education phase, affects the timing of marriage and childbearing. For this purpose, we exploit the introduction of short school years in Germany in...

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Is there still son preference in the United States?

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019 - revised, October 2019

first child raised fertility and increased the probability that the family was living without a father. We find that for our … associated with lower fertility, particularly for natives. Thus, by the 2008-2013 period, any apparent son preference in … fertility decisions appears to have been outweighed by factors such as cost concerns in raising girls or increased female …

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Gender-specific effects of unemployment on family formation : a cross-national perspective

Schmitt, Christian (contributor) - 2008

clearly increases the likelihood to have a first child. -- Family formation ; fertility ; unemployment ; cross …

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A lost generation? : Long term socioeconomic outcomes in orphans

Bozzoli, Carlos - 2010

main outcomes of young adults, namely labor market attachment and fertility, and its relation to orphanhood status. The … key outcomes (e.g. schooling, work, fertility outcomes). It also provides information on so-called "parental investments … educational achievements, but that it may also leave a long-lasting "imprint" in terms of employment and fertility patterns …

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