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While many jurisdictions ban teacher strikes on the assumption that they harm students, there is surprisingly little research on this question. The majority of existing studies make cross section comparisons of students who do or do not experience a strike, and report that strikes do not affect...
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duration of maternity leave in Canada, which significantly increased the amount of first-year maternal care. Our results …
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We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U …
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We study the impact of maternal care on early child development using an expansion in Canadian maternity leave entitlements. Following the leave expansion, mothers who took leave spent between 48 and 58 percent more time not working in the first year of their children's lives. We find that this...
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Western countries. This paper compares mortality inequality in Canada and the U.S. over the period 1990/91 through 2010/11. In … Canada, mortality inequality remained constant among the youngest, but increased for men over 24 and for women over 14. In …
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proceed by using the large variation across birth cohorts in income security entitlements in Canada that arise from reforms to …
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significant increase in maternity leave mandates in Canada. We find very large increases in mothers' time away from work post …
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, from other jurisdictions. This omission is particularly disturbing in the case of Canada, which now has some of the most … occupational gender segregation in Canada and its consequences for wages. The sample period precedes many provincial pay equity … penalties in female jobs in Canada are generally much smaller than the estimates for the United States. Although there is some …
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and expansion of job-protected maternity leave in Canada. The substantial variation in leave entitlements across mothers …
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Marriage penalties are a controversial feature of many government policies. Empirical evidence of their behavioral effects is quite mixed. This is surprising because economic theory predicts that they should have an impact on the headship decision. We investigate the removal of marriage...
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