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Taxing childcare: Effects on family labor supply and children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2012
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
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Retirement, intergenerational time transfers, and fertility
Eibich, Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2020
children's fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We … retirement affects only the timing of adult children's fertility, without having an effect on total fertility. …
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A new color in the picture: The impact of educational fields on fertility in Western Germany
Oppermann, Anja - 2012
The extensive research on the impact of educational attainment on fertility behavior has been expanded by a new …
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Life-cycle incidence of family policy measures in Germany: Evidence from a dynamic microsimulation model
Bonin, Holger; Reuss, Karsten; Stichnoth, Holger - 2015
novel dynamic microsimulation model that combines simulated family life-cycles for a base population from the 2009 wave of … population average. Moreover, it is shown that some measures, such as income tax splitting, may make individuals in fact worse … off, in financial terms, over the long course, as a result of negative labour supply incentives which are reinforced …
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Moving to an earnings-related parental leave system: Do heterogeneous effects on parents make some children worse off?
Huber, Katrin - 2015
Can moving to an earnings-related parental leave system influence children's wellbeing and are heterogeneous effects on parents carried over to the entire family, making special groups of children worse off than others? To answer this question, this study exploits a large and unanticipated...
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Causal effects on employment after first birth: A dynamic treatment approach
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin; Steffes, Susanne - 2013
The effects of childbirth on future labor market outcomes are a key issue for policy discussion. This paper implements a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity...
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Helping with the kids? How family-friendly workplaces affect parental well-being and behavior
Lauber, Verena; Storck, Johanna - 2016
Despite political efforts, balancing work and family life is still challenging. This paper provides novel evidence on the effect of firm level interventions that seek to reduce the work-life conflict. The focus is on how a specific workplace policy, namely childcare support, affects the...
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The Impact of Participation in Sports on Educational Attainment: New Evidence from Germany
Cornelißen, Thomas; Pfeifer, Christian - 2007
We analyze the impact of exercising sports during childhood and adolescence on educational attainment. The theoretical framework is based on models of allocation of time and educational productivity. Using the rich information from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we apply generalized...
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Older Babies - More Active Mothers? How Maternal Labor Supply Changes as the Child Grows
Sommerfeld, Katrin - 2008
economic incentives - mainly to imputed wages - as the child grows. …
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The effects of after-school programs on maternal employment
Dehos, Fabian; Paul, Marie - 2017
This paper evaluates the impact of a massive expansion of after-school programs (ASPs) on the labor market participation of mothers with primary school children in the West German context of relatively low full-time employment rates. Using an instrumental variables approach we exploit regional...
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