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Do public program benefits crowd out private transfers in developing countries? : a critical review of recent evidence
Nikolov, Plamen; Bonci, Matthew - 2020
Precipitated by rapid globalization, rising inequality, population growth, and longevity gains, social protection programs have been on the rise in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) in the last three decades. However, the introduction of public benefits could displace informal mechanisms...
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Job location decisions and the effect of children on the employment gender gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an eventstudy design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
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Longer school schedules, childcare and the quality of mothers' employment : evidence from school reform in Chile
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Lauer, Catalina; … - 2020
Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers' labor force participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the quality of jobs mothers find by estimating the causal...
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Do private household transfers to the elderly respond to public pension benefits? : evidence from rural China
Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019 - Current version: April 2019
response to changes in their parents’ income. Exploiting a unique policy intervention in China, we examine using a difference …
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The motherhood penalty in China : having a child increases gender inequality in the labor market
Zhang, Mingxue; Hou, Lingling; Wang, Yue - 2022
Using a comprehensive individual panel dataset in China and an event study method, we examined the effects of having a …
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Retirement, housing mobility, downsizing and neighbourhood quality : a causal investigation
Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis; Zubrick, Stephen R. - 2021
This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of retirement on housing choices. Our empirical strategy … exploits the discontinuity in the eligibility ages for state pension as an instrument for the endogenous retirement decision … and controls for time-invariant individual characteristics. The results show that retirement leads to a statistically …
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Occupational differences in the effects of retirement on hospitalizations for mental illness among female workers : evidence from administrative data in China
Wang, Tianyu; Sun, Ruochen; Sindelar, Jody Louise; Chen, Xi - 2024
and health care utilization. Leveraging differential statutory retirement age (SRA) by occupation for China's urban female …Retirement, a major transition in the life course, may affect many aspects of retirees' well-being, including health … workers, we provide some of the first evidence on the causal effect of retirement on hospitalizations attributable to mental …
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Parental migration, investment in children, and children's non-cognitive development : evidence from rural China
Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019
parental migration affects children's non-cognitive development. We use longitudinal data of children in rural China and adopt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149247
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The heterogeneous impact of pension income on elderly living arrangements : evidence from China's new rural pension scheme
Cheng, Lingguo; Liu, Hong; Zhang, Ye; Zhao, Zhong - 2017
unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the New Rural Pension Scheme in China, we explicitly … effects. Our results highlight that living arrangement is multidimensional in rural China. …
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Childcare and maternal employment : evidence from Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Hiraga, Masako; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2019
Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and recent studies offer mixed results. We attempt to fill these gaps by analyzing several of the latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey...
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