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and gradually diminishing as children grow older, while fathers' wellbeing boost is shorter-lived, typically fading after …
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Women experience significant reductions in labor market income following the birth of children, while their male …
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The covid-19 pandemic led many countries to close schools and declare lockdowns during the Spring of 2020, with important impacts on the labor market. We document the effects of the covid-19 lockdown in Spain, which was hit early and hard by the pandemic and suffered one of the strictest...
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between mothers and similar women with no children. Mothers send 12.2% fewer job applications and are more selective regarding …
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In this paper we exploit the introduction in February 2018 of a new paid parental leave program to care for a seriously ill child in Chile (SANNA) to identify the role of both economic incentives and gender norms on families' decisions regarding market versus home production specialization. To...
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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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The consequence of the arrival of children for the gender wage gap - known as the child penalty - is substantial and … has been documented for many countries. Little is still known about the impact of having children beyond paid work in the … production is roughly equal across gender before and after the arrival of children. This result rejects the hypothesis that women …
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We study the effect of institutional childcare on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening of childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...
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We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...
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