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provider role and women staying at home and taking care of children. The employment of mothers was not a common practice, so … there are solid employment patterns of mothers, which change across cohorts for instance resulting in more part time …
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mothers' personality or mothers' cognitive skills are controlled for. …
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-cognitive child development outcomes. We identify a strong positive association between mothers’ life satisfaction and their children …. Our findings suggest that mothers’ life satisfaction is beneficial for their children’s development at all ages and that it …
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This field experiment investigates the causal impact of mothers' perceptions of gender norms on their employment … attitudes and labor-supply expectations. We provide mothers of young children in Germany with information about the prevailing … gender norm regarding maternal employment in their city. At baseline, over 70% of mothers incorrectly perceive this gender …
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This study investigates how the duration of the work interruption and the labor market status of mothers upon their … Britain and West-Germany, this research also explores how extended leave entitlements for mothers influence the division of … results suggest that mothers increase their housework hours with every additional month of employment interruption. Mothers …
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Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of … choice task where the mothers faced trade-offs between a smaller-sooner and a larger-later monetary reward with a delay of …
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coverage is particularly pronounced for under 3 year-olds. The present paper is concerned with how mothers' mental and physical … rates as an instrument for individual formal child care usage. The results indicate that mothers are in a worse physical … condition if their children attend formal care, whereas no such effect is found with regard to mothers' mental health. Overall …
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same time depending on whether women are regarded in first line as mothers or workers. In Germany, the male breadwinner … done to investigate causal effects of the reform on the employment rates of mothers. The results reveal that the mothers … giving birth under the new reform start significantly earlier working than mothers bearing a child under the old reform, but …
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We examine how parental health shocks affect children's non-cognitive skills. Based on a German mother-and-child data base, we draw on significant changes in self-reported parental health as an exogenous source of health variation to identify effects on outcomes for children at ages of three and...
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We study the development of teenage fertility in East and West Germany using data from the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) and from the German Mikrozensus. Following the international literature we derive hypotheses on the patterns of teenage fertility and test whether they are relevant in the...
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