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Does the expansion of public child care increase birth rates? : evidence from a low-fertility country ; conference paper
Hener, Timo; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Rainer, Helmut - 2013
Germany has the lowest birth rate among all OECD countries. To encourage fertility, the federal government has recently … fertility may be reversed through changes in public policy that allow women to combine employment and motherhood. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339951
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Does the Expansion of Public Child Care Increase Birth Rates? Evidence from a Low-Fertility Country
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - Verein für Socialpolitik - VfS - 2013
Germany has the lowest birth rate among all OECD countries. To encourage fertility, the federal government has recently … fertility may be reversed through changes in public policy that allow women to combine employment and motherhood. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957958
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Does the Expansion of Public Child Care Increase Birth Rates? Evidence from a Low-Fertility Country
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2013
Germany has the lowest birth rate among all OECD countries. To encourage fertility, the federal government has recently … fertility may be reversed through changes in public policy that allow women to combine employment and motherhood. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329429
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Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) in a Model of Fertility Choice
Rainer, Helmut; Selvaretnam, Geethanjali; Ulph, David - School of Economics and Finance, University of St. Andrews - 2008
technologies and the microeconomics of fertility choice. Individuals make choices of education and work along with decisions about … whether and when to have children. Decisions regarding fertility are influenced by policy and labor market factors that affect … factors across countries explain observed dierent fertility and childbearing age patterns. We then use the model to predict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005536807
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Daddy months
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010422205
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Daddy months : conference paper
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 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 having a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483880
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Children of a (policy) revolution : the introduction of universal child care and its effect on fertility
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Hener, Timo; Rainer, Helmut - 2014
What role does affordable and widely available public child care play for fertility? We exploit a major German reform … fertility. The fertility effects are more pronounced at the intensive than at the extensive margin, and are not driven by tempo … effects or selective migration. Our findings inform policy makers concerned about suboptimally low fertility by suggesting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010347342
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Child Benefit and Child Allowances in Germany: Their Impact on Family Policy Goals
Rainer, Helmut; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Danzer, Natalia; … - In: CESifo DICE Report 12 (2014) 1, pp. 37-45
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Kindergeld und Kinderfreibeträge in Deutschland: Evaluierung der Auswirkungen auf familienpolitische Ziele
Rainer, Helmut; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Danzer, Natalia; … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 66 (2013) 09, pp. 28-36
Im Gegensatz zur öffentlich geförderten Kinderbetreuung, die die Arbeitsmarktbeteiligung von Müttern erhöht und sich größtenteils selbst finanziert, können monetäre Leistungen wie das Kindergeld zu negativen Beschäftigungseffekten bei Müttern führen. Die tatsächlichen Kosten einer...
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Kindergeld
Rainer, Helmut; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Danzer, Natalia; … - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
Im Rahmen der vom Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ) und vom Bundesministerium der Finanzen (BMF) in Auftrag gegebenen Gesamtevaluation von zentralen ehe- und familienbezogenen Leistungen wurden in der vorliegenden Studie die Auswirkungen der familienpolitischen...
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