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The Long-Term Impact of Children's Disabilities on Families
Gunnsteinsson, Snaebjorn; Steingrimsdottir, Herdis - 2019
the household is also affected as subsequent fertility is lower and partnership dissolution is more common. Finally …
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Family economics writ large
Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2016
fertility and greater parental investment in children; (ii) a rise in married female labor-force participation; (iii) a …
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The baby boomers and the productivity slowdown
Vandenbroucke, Guillaume - 2018
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Job displacement risk and severance pay
Cozzi, Marco; Fella, Giulio - 2016
This paper is a quantitative, equilibrium study of the insurance role of severance pay when workers face displacement risk and markets are incomplete. A key feature of our model is that, in line with an established empirical literature, job displacement entails a persistent fall in earnings upon...
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Implications of labor supply specifications in CGE models : a demonstration for employment of Palestinian labor in Israel and its impact on the West Bank economy
Agbahey, Johanes; Siddig, Khalid Hassan Ali; Grethe, Harald - 2020
Results of general equilibrium models are sensitive to model parameterization and specification. The role of macroeconomic closures and the effect of trade elasticities are documented in the literature, but there is no systematic analysis of the implications of different labor supply...
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American Dream Delayed: Shifting Determinants of Homeownership
Khorunzhina, Natalia; Miller, Robert A. - 2019
This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of discrete choice for labor supply, fertility and transition from … level wages led to lower fertility also contributing to the decline,because households with children are more likely to own …
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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 … completed fertility for many cohorts in our data. Consistent with our interpretation, we show that results are limited to the … of changes of living arrangements and labor supply. Given the Italian lowest low fertility, we conclude that pension …
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Violence and birth outcomes : evidence from homicides in Brazil
Koppensteiner, Martin; Manacorda, Marco - 2015
This paper uses microdata from Brazilian natality and mortality vital statistics between 2000 and 2010 to estimate the impact of in-utero exposure to local violence - measured by homicide rates - on birth outcomes. The estimates show that exposure to violence during the first trimester of...
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Subjective expectations and demand for contraception
Miller, Grant; Paula, Áureo de; Valente, Christine - 2021
’ fertility preferences with women’s, and correcting women’s beliefs about pregnancy risk absent contraception have the potential …
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A second chance? : labor market returns to adult education using school reforms
Bennett, Patrick; Blundell, Richard W.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2020
fertility. As male education remains unchanged by the reforms, later life education reduces the pre-existing gender earnings gap …
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