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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...

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Does it pay for women to volunteer?

Sauer, Robert M. - 2012

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Early Labor Market Prospects and Family Formation

Engdahl, Mattias; Godard, Mathilde; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2019

We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family formation outcomes. A policy-pilot affecting the length of upper-secondary vocational tracks allows us to...

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What's the use of marriage?

Cigno, Alessandro - 2009

We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional...

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What's the Use of Marriage?

Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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The Effect of Alimony Reform on Married Women's Labor Supply: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer Louise - 2021

Reforms that reduce alimony can affect married couples in two different ways. First, reduced alimony lowers the … bargaining power of the payee, usually the wife. Second, reduced alimony lowers the incentives of wives to engage in the … alimony is due, at least in part, to differences in their preferences and costs for children. The estimated effects are larger …

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Dynamic Effects of Educational Assortative Mating on Labor Supply

Gihleb, Rania; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2016

In 30% of young American couples the wife is more educated than the husband. Those women are characterized by a substantially higher employment (all else equal), which in turn amplifies income inequality across couples. Using NLSY79, we formulate and structurally estimate a dynamic life-cycle...

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Causal Effects on Employment after First Birth: A Dynamic Treatment Approach

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin; Steffes, Susanne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The effects of childbirth on future labor market outcomes are a key issue for policy discussion. This paper implements a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity...

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The Relationship between Hours of Domestic Services and Female Earnings: Panel Register Data Evidence from a Reform

Halldén, Karin; Stenberg, Anders - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In 2007, a tax discount reform in Sweden reduced prices of outsourced domestic services (ODS) by 50 percent. Unlike most previous studies, population register data enable us to directly link a proxy for relaxed time constraints, annual changes in households' tax discounts, to changes in...

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Ora et non Labora? A Test of the Impact of Religion on Female Labor Supply

Pastore, Francesco; Tenaglia, Simona - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines the influence of religion on female participation to the labor market using data relative to women aged between 18 and 60 years in 47 European countries drawn from the European Values Study (EVS). We investigate the determinants of the probability of being employed rather...

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