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For some mothers more than others: How children matter for labour market outcomes when both fertility and female employment are low

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - 2012

We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and … two or more kids. Heterogeneity analysis suggests no causal effects of fertility on female employment among mothers with …

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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. …

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Mothers' income recovery after childbearing

Angelov, Nikolay; Karimi, Arizo - 2012

This paper examines the time profile of the effect of fertility on female labour earnings with respect to time since … birth. To address endogeneity of fertility to labour income, we use the same-sex instrument (Angrist and Evans, 1998) in a … novel way on a panel data set to uncover the time profile of the fertility effect. Our OLS estimates suggest that the …

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Parental leave, (in)formal childcare and long-term child outcomes

Danzer, Natalia; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2017

We provide a novel interpretation of the estimated treatment effects from evaluations of parental leave reforms. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child outcomes and potential mediators. We evaluate a large and generous parental leave extension in...

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Labour supply responses to paid parental leave

Karimi, Arizo; Lindahl, Erica; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - 2012

Women account for the majority of parental leave take-up, which is likely one of the major reasons for the gender gap in income and wages. Consequently, many countries exert effort to promote a more gender equal division of parental leave. Indeed, the last decades have seen an increase in...

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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 …

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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...

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Grandmothers' labor supply

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Halla, Martin; … - 2017

The labor supply effects of becoming a grandmother are not well established in the empirical literature. We estimate the effect of becoming a grandmother on the labor supply decision of older workers. Under the assumption that grandmothers cannot predict the exact date of conception of their...

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Grandmothers' labor supply

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Schmidpeter, Bernhard; … - 2017

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Child labor and the labor supply of other household members: Evidence from 1920 america

Manacorda, Marco - 2003

This paper analyses the effect of child labor on household labor supply using 1920 US Census micro data. The aim of the analysis is to understand who in the household benefits from child labor. In order to identify a source of exogenous variation in child labor I use State-specific child labor...

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