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This paper studies retirement and child support policies in a small, open, overlapping-generations economy with PAYG social security and endogenous retirement and fertility decisions. It demonstrates that neither fertility nor retirement choices necessarily coincide with socially optimal...
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We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household … wealthier and more educated women. Price subsidies, while less efficient, have positive re-distributional effects …
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This paper evaluates the impact of a reduction in the child qualifying age criteria for the One Parent Family Payment (OFP) in Ireland. From 2012 to 2015, the child qualifying age for OFP was reduced from 18 years to 7 years. Lone parents who no longer qualified for the payment, based on the age...
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It takes a woman and a man to make a baby. This fact suggests that for a birth to take place, the parents should first agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are likely to arrive only if both parents desire one, and...
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initiated by women, and importantly, by women who are unhappier than their husband. Hence, happiness gaps seem to matter to …
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The time allocated to household chores is substantial, with the burden falling disproportionately upon women. Further …, social norms about how much work men and women should contribute in the home are likely to influence couples' housework … satisfaction based on predicted and residual housework time. We find that women's satisfaction, but not men's, is robustly affected …
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women in Australia, with the emphasis on the former. We focus on the partnersメ involuntary job loss experiences, and analyse …This paper investigates both the added worker effect (the labour supply responses of women to their partners' job … women's labour market activities in the periods before and after their partnersメ job loss. By estimating fixed effects …
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We analyze the fertility and health effects resulting from the abolition of the Austrian baby bonus in January 1997. The abolition of the benefit was publicly announced about ten months in advance, creating the opportunity for prospective parents to (re-)schedule conceptions accordingly. We find...
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I study the impact of a universal child benefit on fertility and family well-being. I exploit the unanticipated introduction of a new, sizeable, unconditional child benefit in Spain in 2007, granted to all mothers giving birth on or after July 1, 2007. The regression discontinuity-type design...
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The German Child Benefit ("Kindergeld") is paid to legal guardians of children as a cash benefit. This study employs exogenous variations in the amount of child benefit received by households to investigate the extent to which these various changes have translated into an improvement in the...
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