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We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Combining a regression discontinuity with a difference-in-differences design, we find...
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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 …
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improved understanding of the relationship between family structure and economic preparation for retirement at earlier stages … retirement at young and mid-adulthood by family context. Additional children were negatively associated with several measures of … potentially long-term implications for their financial security. The results shed light on linkages between family structure and …
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Colombia has experienced a secular increase in female labor participation, which passed from nearly 47% in 1984 to 65% in 2006. We decompose the evolution of participation into changes in the composition of the population and changes in the participation rates by groups (defined according to the...
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the birth of a child. Our setting enables us to examine the effect of family policies in a region with patriarchal gender …, which may reduce conflicts within the marriage …
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