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We study the impact on children of increasing the time that the mother spends with her child in the first year by exploiting a reform that increased paid and unpaid maternity leave in Norway. The reform increased maternal leave on average by 4 months and family income was unaffected. The...
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Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of … these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are … able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on both parental and student outcomes. We find very small and …
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Our model studies couples. time allocation and career choices, which are a¤ected by a social norm on gender roles in the family. Parents can provide two types of informal child care: basic care (feeding, changing children, baby-sitting) and quality care (activities that stimulate children.s...
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We study the design of child-care policies when redistribution matters. Traditional mothers provide some informal child …
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We study the impact on children of increasing maternity leave benefits using a reform that increased paid and unpaid maternity leave in Norway in July 1977. Mothers giving birth before this date were eligible only for 12 weeks of unpaid leave, while those giving birth after were entitled to 4...
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Our model explains the observed gender-specific patterns of career and child care choices through endogenous social norms. We study how these norms interact with the gender wage gap. We show that via the social norm a couple's child care and career choices impose an externality on other couples,...
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This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature … is significantly negative for housework of women. Childcare time of fathers increases with own wage and with the presence …
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