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Cutting fertility? The effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply
Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016
fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615043
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Impact of first-birth career interruption on earnings: Evidence from administrative data
Hotchkiss, Julie. L; Pitts, M. Melinda; Walker, Mary Beth - 2014
This paper uses unique administrative data to expand the understanding of the role women's intermittency decisions play in the determination of their wages. We demonstrate that treating intermittency as exogenous significantly overstates its impact. The intermittency penalty also increases in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310191
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Roadblocks on the road to grandma's house: Fertility consequences of delayed retirement
Battistin, Erich; De Nadai, Michele; Padula, Mario - 2015
We investigate the role of grandparental childcare for fertility decisions of their offspring. Exploiting pension … reforms in Italy, we argue that delayed retirement represents a negative shock to the supply of informal childcare for the … completed fertility for many cohorts in our data. Consistent with our interpretation, we show that results are limited to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011380976
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Female labor supply and parental leave benefits: The causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time
Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2009
increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform involved a move from a means-tested maternity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273913
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Can women have children and a career? IV evidence from IVF treatments
Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2018
This paper introduces a new IV strategy based on IVF (in vitro fertilization) induced fertility variation among … treatment success provides a plausible instrument for childbearing. Our IV estimates indicate that fertility effects on earnings … are: (i) negative, large and long lasting; (ii) driven by fertility effects on hourly earnings and not so much on labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039283
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Early labor market prospects and family formation
Engdahl, Mattias; Godard, Mathilde; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2018
We use quasi-random variation in graduation years during the onset of a very deep national recession to study the relationship between early labor market conditions and young females' family formation outcomes. A policy-pilot affecting the length of upper-secondary education in Swedish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039306
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Grandmothers' labor supply
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Halla, Martin; … - 2017
prematurely the labor market. This effect is stronger when informal childcare is more valuable to the mother. To estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916765
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Grandmothers' labor supply
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Schmidpeter, Bernhard; … - 2017
prematurely the labor market. This effect is stronger when informal childcare is more valuable to the mother. To estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927106
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Where do they find the time?: An analysis of how parents shift and squeeze their time around work and child care
Craig, Lyn - 2006
Parents who undertake paid work are obliged to spend time away from their children, and to use nonparental childcare … consistently shown that parents who are in paid employment do not reduce their parental childcare time on an hour-for-hour basis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266618
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Parental leave, (in)formal childcare and long-term child outcomes
Danzer, Natalia; Zweimüller, Martina; Halla, Martin; … - 2017
eligibility for extended parental leave and geographical variation in formal childcare. We find that estimated treatment effects … on long-term child outcomes differ substantially according to the availability of formal childcare and the mother … capital outcomes only if the reform induces a replacement of informal childcare with maternal care. We conclude that care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916751