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Women's fertility and employment decisions under two political systems : comparing East and West Germany before reunification

Bredtmann, Julia; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - 2009

Over the last decades fertility rates have decreased in most developed countries, while female labour force participation has increased strongly over the same time period. To shed light on the relationship between women's fertility and employment decisions, we analyse their transitions to the...

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Rural electrification and fertility : evidence from Côte d’Ivoire

Peters, Jörg; Vance, Colin - 2010

Using household-level survey data from Côte d’Ivoire, this paper investigates the determinants of fertility with a particular focus on the effect of electrification. Based on count data regression models, our analysis suggests a highly significant relationship between fertility and...

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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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Encouraging parents to invest : a randomized trial with two simple interventions in early childhood

Ebert, Cara; Heesemann, Esther Luise; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2020

The lottery of birth draws some children into deprived environments and others into environments where they thrive. In a field experiment in rural India with 10-20 months old children we test two scalable interventions to reduce early disadvantages in health and mental development. We distribute...

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Encouraging parents to invest : a randomized trial with two simple interventions in early childhood

Ebert, Cara; Heesemann, Esther Luise; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2020

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Fathers' parental leave-taking, childcare involvement and mothers' labor market participation

Tamm, Marcus - 2018

This study analyzes the effect of fathers' parental leave-taking on the time fathers spend with their children and on mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies on within-father differences in leave-taking for...

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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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Explaining differentials in subsidy levels among hospital ownership types in Germany

Pilny, Adam - 2014

German hospitals receive subsidies for investment costs by federal states. Theoretically, these subsidies have to cover … higher levels of subsidies compared to for-profit hospitals. In this study, I examine the sources of this disparity by … decomposing the differential in a so-called facilitation ratio, i.e. the ratio of subsidies to tangible fixed assets, revealing to …

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Life expectancy and mother-baby interventions : evidence from a historical trial

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Karlsson, Martin; Nilsson, Therese - 2014

This paper investigates the potential of maternal and infant health programs to improve the life expectancy of women and children. We study a program trialed 1931-33 in seven Swedish medical districts, assembling individual data from parish records and aggregate data from annual reports of...

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Does the negative effect of caregiving on work persist over time?

Heger, Dörte; Korfhage, Thorben - 2017

Informal caregivers provide valuable services to elderly persons with long-term care needs. However, the time commitment of caregiving often competes against time spent in the labour force. In addition to the momentary trade-off, long-term consequences are possible since especially older workers...

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