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Cutting Fertility? The Effect of Cesarean Deliveries on Subsequent Fertility and Maternal Labor Supply
Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016
fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494277
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Fertility as a Driver of Maternal Employment
Schmieder, Julia - 2020
positive effect of an instrument-induced increase in fertility on maternal employment driven by an increase in informal work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270174
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Child Health, Remote Work and the Female Wage Penalty
Kouki, Amairisa; Sauer, Robert M. - 2020
Using data on American women and the health status of their children, this paper studies the effect of remote work on female earnings. Instrumental variables estimates, which exploit a temporary child health shock as exogenous variation in the propensity to work at home, yield an hourly wage...
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Remote Work, Children's Health and the Racial Gap in Female Wages
Kouki, Amairisa; Sauer, Robert M. - 2022
This paper studies the racial gap in the female wage penalty to remote work. Using a temporary child health problem as a source of exogenous variation in the propensity to work from home, wage penalties reach 86 percent for black women and 77 percent for white women. Promotion bias, task...
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Does it pay for women to volunteer?
Sauer, Robert M. - 2012
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/10010287603
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Does It Pay for Women to Volunteer?
Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
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/10011252286
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How Important Are Mental and Physical Health in Career and Family Choices?
Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2024
We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes … employment have long-lasting eects on life decisions, life satisfaction, and income due to their interaction with fertility …
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The opt-out revolution: A descriptive analysis
Antecol, Heather - 2010
Using data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 US Census, I find little support for the opt-out revolution - highly educated women, relative to their less educated counterparts, are exiting the labor force to care for their families at higher rates today than in earlier time periods - if one focuses...
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Social Norms and Mothers' Labor Market Attachment: The Medium-Run Effects of Parental Benefits
Kluve, Jochen; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2014
Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...
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Career Breaks after Childbirth: The Impact of Family Leave Reforms in the Czech Republic
Bičáková, Alena; Kalíšková, Klára - 2016
The Czech Republic is a country with a strong attachment of women to the labor market, but with one of the longest paid family leaves, which is often followed by a spell of unemployment. Using a difference-in-differences methodology, we study the impact of two reforms of the duration of the...
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