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We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in the German Socio-Economic Panel. Living with a partner and living with a child both have substantial positive effects on earnings and work hours. These effects persist in fixed...
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This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … childcare availability has positive and significant effects on both mothers' working status and children's language test scores …. The effects are stronger when the degree of rationing is high and for low educated mothers and children living in lower …
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subsidized child care in Spain in the early 1990s, addressing the impact on mothers' short- and long-run employment outcomes (up … worked (9%) of mothers with age-eligible (3-year-old) children, and that these effects persisted over time. Heterogeneity … matters. While persistence is strong among mothers with a high-school degree, the effects of the program on maternal …
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We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers …. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences … substantial differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives …
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We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical week and work fewer hours than women with first-born girls. The puzzle is why women in these countries react in this way to the sex of their first child, which is chosen...
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domestic work, and bought in child care for married or cohabiting mothers with pre-school age children. The father's behavior …
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two or more kids. Heterogeneity analysis suggests no causal effects of fertility on female employment among mothers with … less than college education and older mothers (born before 1978). Furthermore, we find evidence for the interaction of … estimates for highly educated mothers and for mothers born after 1977 …
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effects: high educated non-mothers are persuaded by the informational treatments to increase their intended use of formal … child care (and to pay more); whereas low educated non-mothers to reduce their intended labor supply. These findings are …
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Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of … choice task where the mothers faced trade-offs between a smaller-sooner and a larger-later monetary reward with a delay of …
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examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following … weekly work hours of employed mothers of one-to-three year-old children by 6 to 9% and that their wage incomes may have risen …
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