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Initial Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Employment and Hours of Self-Employed Coupled and Single Workers by Gender and Parental Status

Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2020

This study examines the initial impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on the employment and hours of unincorporated self-employed workers using data from the Current Population Survey. Although the shutdowns decreased employment and hours for all groups, differential effects by gender, couple status, and...

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Care or cash? The effect of child care subsidies on student performance

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Loken, Katrine V.; … - 2012

Given the wide use of childcare subsidies across countries, it is surprising how little we know about the effect of these subsidies on children's longer run outcomes. Using a sharp discontinuity in the price of childcare in Norway, we are able to isolate the effects of childcare subsidies on...

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Care or Cash? The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Student Performance

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Loken, Katrine V.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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The Effect of Family Structure on Parents' Child Care Time in the United States and the United Kingdom

Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Ribar, David C.; Stratton, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We use time-diary data from the 2003 and 2004 American Time Use Surveys and the 2000 United Kingdom Time Use Study to estimate the effect of family structure on the time mothers and fathers spend on primary and passive child care and on market work, using a system of correlated Tobit equations...

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The Influence of Wages on Parents’ Allocations of Time to Child Care and Market Work in the United Kingdom

Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Ribar, David C.; Stratton, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

The Influence of Wages on Parents’ Allocations of Time to Child Care and Market Work in the United Kingdom

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Family Economics Writ Large

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016

fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a decline …

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Did the Great Recession Affect Sex Ratios at Birth for Groups with a Son Preference?

Lee, Soohyung; Orsini, Chiara - 2017

This paper examines the extent to which the Great Recession affected gender composition at birth. We focus on ethnic minorities in the US known for a son preference Chinese, Indians, and Koreans. Using the DID method, we find that in response to the Great Recession, the fraction of newborn boys...

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Household Savings and Marriage Payments: Evidence from Dowry in India

Anukriti, S; Kwon, Sungoh; Prakash, Nishith - 2018

-preferring fertility behaviors and investments in girls. …

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Girls and Boys: Economic Crisis, Fertility, and Birth Outcomes

Lee, Soohyung; Orsini, Chiara - 2018

We investigate the impact of an economic downturn on natality and birthweight for newborns when parents prefer sons. We examine South Korea, unexpectedly hit by the Asian financial crisis in 1997. For identification, we exploit regional and time variation in the crisis, focusing on women who...

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Marital Fertility and Religion : Recent Changes in Spain

Adsera, Alicia - 2004

Since the onset of democracy in 1975, both total fertility and Mass attendance rates in Spain have dropped dramatically …. I use the 1985 and 1999 Spanish Fertility Surveys to study whether the significance of religion in fertility behavior … practicing and non-practicing Catholics, practicing Catholics portray significantly higher fertility during recent years. In the …

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