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Our goal in this paper is to focus on highly educated men and women and try to explore the trade-offs between family … life cycle for different birth cohorts to explore the connection between family and work over time. Our results indicate … that family plays a crucial role as a source of gender differences in the labor market in Spain. By 2008, children are the …
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The question that this paper addresses is whether or not parents are altruistic towards their children. A new approach will be introduced, where the life satisfaction data of parents will be regressed onto the living conditions of their children who now live independently. After controlling for...
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women, such as policies that subsidize the diffusion and use of best practice birth control technologies. Evaluation of the … consequences of such family planning programs almost never assess their long-run consequences, such as on labor supply, savings, or … contraception or age-specific fertility. The dearth of long-run family planning experiments has led economists to consider …
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older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members. …
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ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to increase effort, even when controlling …
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There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …
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This paper argues that skill formation is a life-cycle process and develops the implications of this insight for Scottish social policy. Families are major producers of skills, and a successful policy needs to promote effective families and to supplement failing ones. We present evidence that...
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Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates …
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native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such … increase their labor supply, and ii) the effects were larger on skilled women whose labor supply was heavily constrained by … family responsibilities. Our evidence indicates that over the last decade immigration led to an important expansion in the …
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Wenn institutionelle Rahmenbedingungen die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf behindern, wird die Wahl zwischen … Jahre kohärent ausgestaltet waren und die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf verbessert haben. Beim Blick auf Deutschland …
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