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

Raute, Anna - 2018

gap between highly educated (high-earning) and less-educated (low-earning) women. I exploit a major maternity leave … higher-earning women. Using the large differential changes in maternity leave benefits across education and income groups 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 economic consequences of family policies: Lessons from a century of legislation in high-income countries

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2017

We draw lessons from existing work and our own analysis on the effects of parental leave and other interventions aimed at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with a discussion of the historical introduction of family...

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Expanding social protection in developing countries: A gender perspective

Antonopoulos, Rania - 2013

opportunities they present for promoting a gender-equality agenda and women's empowerment. The paper begins with a brief … standpoint of women's inclusion in economic life. Conditional cash transfers and employment guarantee programs are discussed in …

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Compulsory Voting and Public Finance

Hodler, Roland - 2010

Conventional wisdom suggests that compulsory voting lowers the influence of specialinterest groups and leads to policies that are better for less privileged citizens, who often abstain when voting is voluntary. To scrutinize this conventional wisdom, I study public goods provision and rents to...

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Does access to free pre-kindergarten increase maternal labor supply?

Ilin, Elias; Shampine, Samantha; Terry, Ellyn - 2022

Population Survey between 2002 and 2019. Specifically, we look at the change in labor market behavior of women when their child …

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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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Suprinovič, Olga; Schneck, Stefan; Kay, Rosemarie - 2015

that utilization of statutory parental leave decreases women's probability to switch into self-employment. This effect is …

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Economic assimiliation of immigrants arriving from highly developed countries: The case of German immigrants in Sweden and the US

Haberfeld, Yitchak; Birgier, Debora Pricila; Lundh, Christer - 2017

Migration across well-developed countries has been overlooked in the immigration literature. The present study is designed to evaluate the interplay between the effects of host countries' characteristics and self-selection patterns of immigrants from a highly developed country on their economic...

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Education effects on days hospitalized and days out of work by gender: Evidence from Turkey

Tansel, Aysit; Keskin, Halil İbrahim - 2017

suggest that an increase in years of education causes to reduce the number of days hospitalized for both men and women … work for a randomly selected women. …

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Can public policy increase paternity acknowledgement? Evidence from earnings-related parental leave

Raute, Anna; Weber, Andrea; Zudenkova, Galina - 2022

A child's family structure is a fundamental determinant of future well-being, making it essential to understand how public policies affect the involvement of fathers. In this paper, we exploit a reform of the German parental leave system which increased mother's income and reduced legal father's...

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