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Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011

The current study finds that societies which historically engaged in plough agriculture today have lower fertility. We … fertility …

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Does Culture Matter?

Fernández, Raquel - 2010

issues, including female labor force participation, fertility, labor market regulation, redistribution, growth, and financial …

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Assortative Mating and Female Labor Supply

Bredemeier, Christian - 2010

This paper investigates the pattern of wives' hours disaggregated by the husband's wage decile. In the US, this pattern has changed from downward-sloping to hump-shaped. We show that this development can be explained within a standard household model of labor supply when taking into account...

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Work and Wage Dynamics Around Childbirth

Ejrnaes, Mette - 2011

This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...

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For Some Mothers More than Others : How Children Matter for Labour Market Outcomes When Both Fertility and Female Employment are Low

Karbownik, Krzysztof - 2012

We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and … two or more kids. Heterogeneity analysis suggests no causal effects of fertility on female employment among mothers with …

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Delayed First Birth and New Mothers' Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from Biological Fertility Shocks

Bratti, Massimiliano - 2013

effect of postponing motherhood is identified using biological fertility shocks, namely the occurrence of miscarriages and … from that of total fertility. Our estimates suggest that delaying the first birth by one year raises the likelihood of …

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Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply : Evidence from Rural China

Li, Hongbin - 2015

This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …

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Employment Adjustments Around Childbirth

Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - 2016

Using rich longitudinal register data from Denmark, we show that the allocation of mothers between the competitive private sector and the family-friendly public sector significantly changes around the birth of their first child. Specifically, mothers – post first childbirth – are...

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Fertility and the Puzzle of Female Employment in the Middle East

Majbouri, Mahdi - 2018

four decades, despite the fact that in the same period, women's education rapidly increased and fertility rates … at first birth as an instrumental variable to estimate the causal impact of fertility on participation of mothers in the …

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The Economic Consequences of Family Policies : Lessons from a Century of Legislation in High-Income Countries

Olivetti, Claudia - 2017

at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with …

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