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Causal Effects on Employment after First Birth : A Dynamic Treatment Approach
Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2013
especially high for medium-skilled mothers with long pre-birth employment experience. We find a significant reduction in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080143
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Origins and Consequences of Child Labor Restrictions:A Macroeconomic Perspective
Doepke, Matthias; Krueger, Dirk - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We investigate the positive and normative consequences of child-labor restrictions foreconomic aggregates and welfare. We argue that even though the laissez-faire outcome maybe inefficient, there are usually better policies to cure these inefficiencies than the impositionof a child-labor ban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860497
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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments:Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Edmonds, Eric V.; Pavcnik, Nina; Topalova, Petia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influenceschooling and child labor decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in schoolingand decline in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863252
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On Intergenerational Transmission of Reading Habits in Italy : Is a Good Example the Best Sermon?
Mancini, Anna Laura - 2011
habit, and "short run" household fixed effect models, where we aim at identifying the impact of the role model exerted by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119025
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Birth Order and Child Outcomes : Does Maternal Quality Time Matter?
Monfardini, Chiara - 2012
Higher birth order positions are often associated with poorer outcomes, possibly due to fewer resources received within … the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are … negative birth order effects on various test scores are only slightly diminished when maternal time is included among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099745
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Does it Pay for Women to Volunteer?
Sauer, Robert M. - 2013
This paper estimates the economic and non-economic returns to volunteering for prime-aged women. A woman's decision to engage in unpaid work, and to marry and have children, is formulated as a forward-looking discrete choice dynamic programming problem. Simulated maximum likelihood estimates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089972
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Parental Leave and Children's Schooling Outcomes : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from a Large Parental Leave Reform
Weißhaar, Natalia - 2013
of birth cohorts 1990 and 1987 as measure of human capital. The evidence suggest no significant overall impact of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074887
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Parental Leave Reform and Long-Run Earnings of Mothers
Frodermann, Corinna - 2020
mothers who gave birth just before and right after the reform and nets out seasonal effects by including the year before … prior-to-birth earnings, however, we do not find any beneficial labor market effects of this parental leave reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012842052
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The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment : New Evidence from Germany
Cornelißen, Thomas - 2008
framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German … Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized ordered probit models to estimate the effect of participation in sport …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773227
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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments : Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Edmonds, Eric V. - 2007
Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777465