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Center-based care and parenting activities
Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, C. Katharina; Waights, Sevrin - 2020
We estimate effects of center-based care on parenting activities using time use data for Germany. Our estimates imply …
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What causes the child penalty? : evidence from same sex couples and policy reforms
Andresen, Martin Eckhoff; Nix, Emily - 2019
Women experience significant reductions in labor market income following the birth of children, while their male …
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Maternal life satisfaction and child development from toddlerhood to adolescence
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2023
-cognitive child development outcomes. We identify a strong positive association between mothers' life satisfaction and their children …. Our findings suggest that mothers' life satisfaction is beneficial for their children's development at all ages and that … data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) which captures maternal life satisfaction and numerous cognitive and non …
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Early child development and parents' labor supply
Lafférs, Lukás; Schmidpeter, Bernhard - 2020
The impact of children's early development status on parental labor market outcomes is not well established in the …
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Center-based care and parenting activities
Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, C. Katharina; Waights, Sevrin - 2021
mothers in Germany. While mothers using center-based care spend significantly less time in the presence of their child, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698644
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Time investment by parents in cognitive and non-cognitive childcare activities
Sepahvand, Mohammad; Shahbazian, Roujman; Swain, … - 2013
We investigate the time investment in cognitive and non-cognitive childcare activities by parents with different educational attainment. In a second step we also investigate this effect for three different child age cohorts. Past research shows that the degree of success in the labour market is...
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Motherhood and the cost of job search
Philippe, Arnaud; Skandalis, Daphné - 2023
between mothers and similar women with no children. Mothers send 12.2% fewer job applications and are more selective regarding …
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Do parental leaves make the motherhood wage penalty worse? : assessing two decades of German reforms
Mari, Gabriele; Cutuli, Giorgio - 2019
such wage responses. We assess if and how two decades of reforms of parental leave schemes in Germany have shaped changes …
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This time it's different: the role of women's employment in a pandemic recession
Alon, Titan; Doepke, Matthias; Olmstead-Rumsey, Jane; … - 2020
In recent US recessions, employment losses have been much larger for men than for women. Yet, in the current recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the opposite is true: unemployment is higher among women. In this paper, we analyze the causes and consequences of this phenomenon. We argue...
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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