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Wind of change? Cultural determinants of maternal labor supply

Boelmann, Barbara; Raute, Anna; Schönberg, Uta - 2020 - This version: May 2021

border within the same commuting zone shows that culture matters. Indeed, East German mothers return to work more quickly and … German female migrants return to work earlier and work longer hours than their West German colleagues even after long … induces "native" West German mothers to accelerate their return to work after childbirth, suggesting that migration might be a …

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Who benefits from universal child care? Estimating marginal returns to early child care attendance

Cornelißen, Thomas; Dustmann, Christian; Raute, Anna; … - 2018

In this paper, we examine the heterogeneous treatment effects of a universal child care (preschool) program in Germany by exploiting the exogenous variation in attendance caused by a reform that led to a large staggered expansion across municipalities. Drawing on novel administrative data from...

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Can public policy increase paternity acknowledgement? : evidence from earnings-related parental leave

Raute, Anna; Weber, Andrea; Zudenkova, Galina - 2022

A child's family structure is a fundamental determinant of future well-being, making it essential to understand how public policies affect the involvement of fathers. In this paper, we exploit a reform of the German parental leave system which increased mother's income and reduced legal father's...

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Can financial incentives reduce the baby gap? : evidence from a reform in maternity leave benefits

Raute, Anna - 2018

In this paper, I assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between highly educated (high-earning) and less-educated (low-earning) women. I exploit a major maternity leave benefit reform in Germany that considerably increased the...

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