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Working women and fertility : the role of grandmothers' labor force participation
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Vidal-Fernandez, Marian - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 61 (2015) 1, pp. 123-147
Grandmothers’ availability for childcare has been shown to increase the labor force participation (LFP) and fertility … between mothers’ LFP and daughters’ LFP and fertility choices. We show that even though grandmothers who participate in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397648
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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2015
particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430557
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Parental leave benefit and differential fertility responses : evidence from a German reform ; presented at CESifo Area Conference on Employment and Social Protection, May 2015
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2015
This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefits on fertility. I use the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280834
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Fertility, household structure, and parental labor supply : evidence from rural China
Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2015
This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the … ordinary least squares estimates show a negative correlation between fertility and parental labor supply. Using twinning as a … natural experiment, we do not find evidence on the negative effects of fertility on parental labor supply. By contrast, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336961
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Working mums and informal care givers : the anticipation effect
Korn, Evelyn; Wrede, Matthias - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 14 (2014) 2, pp. 473-498
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010346568
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A multilevel analysis of child care and the transition to motherhood in Western Germany
Hank, Karsten; Kreyenfeld, Michaela - 2002
In this paper, we take a multilevel perspective to investigate the role of child care in the transition to motherhood in Germany. We argue that in the European institutional context the availability of public day care and informal child care arrangements should be a central element of the local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436265
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Cutting fertility? The effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply
Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016 - First version: May 2, 2016
fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458585
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Cutting fertility? : the effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply
Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016
fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458811
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Cutting fertility : the effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply
Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016
fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472167
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Cutting fertility? : the effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply
Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016 - First version: May 2, 2016
fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is achieved by exploiting variation in the supply-side's incentives to … estimates show that a non-planned CD at parity one decreases life cycle fertility by almost 17 percent. This reduction in … fertility translates into a temporary increase in maternal employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483199