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The Effect of Prenatal Maternity Leave on Short and Long-Term Child Outcomes

Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole - 2018

Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn children. However, little is known about the optimal duration of prenatal maternity leave and existing policies are not evidence-based. We evaluate a substantial maternity leave...

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Parental leave, (in)formal childcare and long-term child outcomes

Danzer, Natalia; Zweimüller, Martina; Halla, Martin; … - 2017

eligibility for extended parental leave and geographical variation in formal childcare. We find that estimated treatment effects … on long-term child outcomes differ substantially according to the availability of formal childcare and the mother … capital outcomes only if the reform induces a replacement of informal childcare with maternal care. We conclude that care …

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Economic origins of cultural norms: The case of animal husbandry and bastardy

Eder, Christoph; Halla, Martin - 2017

This paper explores the historical origins of the cultural norm regarding illegitimacy (formerly known as bastardy). We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural production structures influenced the historical illegitimacy ratio, and have had a lasting effect until today. Based on data...

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Grandmothers' labor supply

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Halla, Martin; … - 2017

prematurely the labor market. This effect is stronger when informal childcare is more valuable to the mother. To estimate the …

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The effect of prenatal maternity leave on short and long-term child outcomes

Ahammer, Alexander; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole - 2018

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011916767

Grandmothers' labor supply

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Schmidpeter, Bernhard; … - 2017

prematurely the labor market. This effect is stronger when informal childcare is more valuable to the mother. To estimate the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917378

Parental leave, (in)formal childcare and long-term child outcomes

Danzer, Natalia; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2017

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927104

Grandmothers' labor supply

Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Schmidpeter, Bernhard; … - 2017

prematurely the labor market. This effect is stronger when informal childcare is more valuable to the mother. To estimate the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927106

Violent Conflict and the Child Quantity-Quality Tradeoff

Nepal, Apsara Karki; Halla, Martin; Stillman, Steven - 2018

We show that the exposure to war-related violence increases the quantity of children temporarily, with permanent negative consequences for the quality of the current and previous cohort of children. Our empirical evidence is based on Nepal, which experienced a ten year long civil conflict of...

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The effect of joint custody on marriage and divorce

Halla, Martin - 2009

Since the 1970s almost all states have introduced a form of joint custody after divorce. We analyze the causal effect of these custody law reforms on the incidence of marriage and divorce. Our identification strategy exploits the different timing of reforms across states and the control group of...

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