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Does custody law affect family behavior in and out of marriage?

Böheim, René; Francesconi, Mario; Halla, Martin - 2012

We examine the effect of joint custody on marriage, divorce, fertility and female employment in Austria using …

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Does the Welfare State Destroy the Family? Evidence from OECD Member Countries

Halla, Martin; Lackner, Mario; Scharler, Johann - 2013

involved in the legislative process), we show that an expansion in the welfare state increases the fertility, marriage, and … formation. Nevertheless, we also find that the welfare state decouples marriage and fertility, and therefore, alters the …

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Can financial incentives reduce the baby gap? Evidence from a reform in maternity leave benefits

Raute, Anna - 2018

In this paper, I assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby … a differences-in-differences design, I estimate the causal impact of the reform on fertility for up to 5 years. In … addition to demonstrating an up to 23% increase in the fertility of tertiary-educated women, I find a positive, statistically …

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The impact of abortion legalisation on birth outcomes in Uruguay

Antón Pérez, José Ignacio; Ferre, Zuleika; Triunfo, … - 2016

This work evaluates the impact of an abortion reform in Uruguay allowing free interruption of pregnancy until 12 weeks of gestation on the quantity and quality of births in the short run. We employ a differences-in-differences approach, a comprehensive administrative register of births and a...

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Parental leave and mother's careers: The relative importance of job protection and cash benefits

Lalive, Rafael; Schlosser, Analía; Steinhauer, Andreas; … - 2011

Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major...

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Expanding social protection in developing countries: A gender perspective

Antonopoulos, Rania - 2013

This paper discusses social protection initiatives in the context of developing countries and explores the opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief introduction on the emergence of social protection (SP) and how it...

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Paternity leave and child outcomes

Avdic, Daniel; Karimi, Arizo; Sjögren, Anna; Sundberg, Elin - 2023

We study how fathers' time impacts children's human capital using the introduction of earmarked paternity leave in Sweden. We use administrative data on parents' leave uptake and children's educational outcomes in a difference-in-discontinuities design, exploiting the plausibly random timing of...

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The impact of state paid leave laws on firms and establishments: Evidence from the first three states

Butcher, Kristin F.; Civril, Deniz; Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2024

We use the Longitudinal Business Database to examine the impact of state-level paid parental leave laws in California, New Jersey, and Rhode Island on firms. Our main estimation strategy uses multi-unit firms and compares within-firm changes in outcomes for establishments in treated and...

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Does child spacing affect children's outcomes? Evidence from a Swedish reform

Pettersson-Lidbom, Per; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - 2009

In this paper, we provide evidence of whether child spacing affects the future success of children. As an exogenous source of variation in child spacing, we make use of the introduction of an administrative rule in the parental leave benefit system in Sweden. This rule made it possible for a...

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The Effect of Joint Custody on Marriage and Divorce

Halla, Martin - 2009

Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different timing of reforms across states and the control group of...

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