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Wirkungen eines Betreuungsgeldes bei bedarfsgerechtem Ausbau frühkindlicher Kindertagesbetreuung: eine Mikrosimulationsstudie

Beninger, Denis; Bonin, Holger; Horstschräer, Julia; … - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly … 79 (2010) 3, pp. 147-168

) to estimate a structural model in which parents decide simultaneously about labor supply, usage of external day care and … their time spent for child care within the family. The model also allows for possible rationing of the parents with respect … especially for poorly educated families, but at the same time discourages these parents to use external day care which can be …

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Daddy Months

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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Gender power, fertility, and family policy

Kemnitz, Alexander; Thum, Marcel - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2013

The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the spouses' welfare function, this shift in power may lead to a time consistency problem. The allocation of resources after the birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal...

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Who cares? Determinants of the fathers' use of parental leave in Germany

Reich, Nora - Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut (HWWI) - 2010

parental leave after the introduction of the Parental Allowance and Parental Leave Act in Germany in 2007. This reform implied …

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Gender Power, Fertility, and Family Policy

Kemnitz, Alexander; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2012

The birth of children often shifts the power balance within a family. If family decisions are made according to the spouses’ welfare function, this shift in power may lead to a time consistency problem. The allocation of resources after the birth of children may differ from the ex-ante optimal...

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If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands: How Do Mothers and Fathers Really Feel about Child Caregiving?

Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper considers the question posed by popular media, do women like doing child care more than men? Using experienced emotions data paired with 24 hour time diaries from the 2010 American Time Use Survey, the paper explores gender differences in how men and women who have done some child...

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Time Use Among new mothers, the Economic Value of Unpaid Care work and gender aspects of superannuation tax concessions

Smith, Julie - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 10 (2007) 2, pp. 99-114

Population aging requires policies addressing ‘population, participation and productivity’. By failing to acknowledge women’s productive work in the unpaid care economy, current retirement income policies may reduce incentives to invest in children, the future labour force, and thereby...

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Child Care and Female Decisions

Whelan, Stephen; Rammohan, Anu - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 8 (2005) 2, pp. 203-225

The extent to which maternal employment is influenced by the affordability of child care is the subject of empirical ambiguity in Australian studies. We contribute to this debate by examining the relationship between maternal employment decisions and child care costs using the HILDA (Household...

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The Distribution of Household Income in Marriage

Ogawa, Hikaru - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 8 (2005) 3, pp. 261-275

This paper deals with three topics which have been neglected in the economics of the family literature. First, how is the distribution of household income endogenously determined within a marriage? Second, what is the desirable allocation of authority to determine the sharing rule of household...

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Child Care Costs and the Employment Status of Married Australian Mothers

Rammohan, Anu; Whelan, Stephen - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Using data from the HILDA (Household Income and Labour Dynamics), this paper examines the implications of child care costs on maternal employment status by distinguishing between full-time and part-time work. Our empirical approach uses an ordered probit model taking into account the endogeneity...

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