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Work and family : marriage, children, child gender and the work hours and earnings of West German men
Choi, Hyung-Jai (contributor); Joesch, Jutta M. (contributor) - 2005
We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters -- a first son increases fathers' work hours by …) relative to men who remain with male children. -- child gender ; fatherhood ; labor supply ; family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003115147
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Work and Family : Marriage, Children, Child Gender and the Work Hours and Earnings of West German Men
Choi, Hyung-Jai; Lundberg, Shelly J.; Joesch, Jutta M. - 2021
We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters - a first son increases fathers' work hours by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318249
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Helping with the Kids? How Family-Friendly Workplaces Affect Parental Well-Being and Behavior
Lauber, Verena - 2017
Despite political efforts, balancing work and family life is still challenging. This paper provides novel evidence on … more family-friendly workplaces. These changes over time allow us to identify causal effects of childcare support using a … satisfaction and job satisfaction. In particular mothers who worked limited hours before the introduction, possibly due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965934
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Working Time Flexibility and Parental 'Quality Time' Spent with Children
Magda, Iga - 2018
The aim of our paper is to analyse the relationship between working time flexibility and parental time devoted to children. Using data from a large panel survey of Polish households carried out in 2013 and 2014 (Determinants of Educational Decisions Household Panel Survey, UDE) we investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919504
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Reducing the child penalty by incentivizing maternal part-time work?
Baertsch, Laurenz; Sandner, Malte - 2024
Worldwide governments discuss how to increase maternal labor market participation and to reduce the child penalty, i.e. labor market earnings losses after child birth. This study analyses the long run effects of a German paid parental leave reform, which aims to increase maternal labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580734
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The Effect of Grandchildren on the Happiness of Grandparents : Does the Grandparent's Child's Gender Matter?
Yamamura, Eiji; Brunello, Giorgio - 2021
Using a representative sample from Japan and a difference-in-differences strategy, we investigate whether the effect of having grandchildren on the happiness of grandparents varies with the gender of their (own) single child. In line with our expectations, we find that maternal grandmothers have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248073
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Do siblings make us happy?
Wang, Shun; Zhou, Weina - 2016
In this paper we estimate the causal effect of having brothers as compared to having sisters on individuals' happiness in China. To identify the effect, we explore random gender assignment of siblings, conditional on the number of siblings, among urban residents born before the One Child Policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181971
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The effect of grandchildren on the happiness of grandparents: does the grandparent's child's gender matter?
Yamamura, Eiji; Brunello, Giorgio - 2021
Using a representative sample from Japan and a difference-in-differences strategy, we investigate whether the effect of having grandchildren on the happiness of grandparents varies with the gender of their (own) single child. In line with our expectations, we find that maternal grandmothers have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430972
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Child Penalties and Parental Role Models : Classroom Exposure Effects
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Olivero, Giulia; Patacchini, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper investigates whether the effects of children on the labor market outcomes of women relative to men -- child penalties -- are shaped by the work behavior of peers' parents during adolescence. Leveraging quasi-random variation in the fraction of peers with working parents across cohorts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072943
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Family time of couples with children : shortening gender differences in parenting?
Roman, Joan Garcia; Cortina, Clara - In: Review of Economics of the Household 14 (2016) 4, pp. 921-940
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