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Lack of adequate childcare is a main reason women cite for not participating in the labor force. We investigate the effect of a reform that lengthened school schedules from half to full days in Chile – essentially providing zero-cost childcare – on different maternal labor participation...
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pension reforms in a relatively short time span. Our analysis shows that, among the women studied, those whose own mothers are … retirement eligible have a 13 percent higher probability of being employed than those whose mothers are ineligible. The pension …
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of mothers working full-time has steadily increased. We provide the first empirical evidence that the increase in mothers …-run influence of the family network on mothers' labour decisions up to seven years post birth. For identification, we exploit …
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The incidence of Cesarean deliveries (CDs) has been on the rise. The procedure's cost and benefits are discussed controversially; in particular, since non-medically indicated cases seem widespread. We study the effect of CDs on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is...
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program that was administered throughout the U.S. during World War II. I begin by estimating the impact of the Lanham Act on … suggests that mothers' paid work increased substantially following the introduction of the child care program. I then study the …
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The substantial increase in female employment rates in Europe over the past two decades has often been linked in political and public rhetoric to negative effects on child development, including obesity. We analyse this association between maternal employment and childhood obesity using rich...
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decreases the time mothers spend in the labor market. Few studies on lower-income countries, in which low household wealth …
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Evidence from past economic crises indicates that recessions often affect men's and women's employment differently, with a greater impact on male-dominated sectors. The current COVID-19 crisis presents novel characteristics that have affected economic, health and social phenomena over wide...
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This paper examines the effects of in-utero exposure to stress on lifelong labor market outcomes. We exploit a unique natural experiment that involved randomly placed Nazi raids on municipalities in Italy during WWII. We use administrative data on the universe of private sector workers in Italy...
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. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of … mothers' labor market outcomes in the medium run, neither of benefit duration nor of job-protection duration. To understand … the relative importance (and interaction) of the two policy instruments in shaping mothers' return to work behavior, we …
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