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Parental leave — A policy evaluation of the Swedish “Daddy-Month” reform
Ekberg, John; Eriksson, Rickard; Friebel, Guido - In: Journal of Public Economics 97 (2013) C, pp. 131-143
-term effects of the incentives on male parental leave, but no behavioral effects in the household. Fathers in the treatment group …
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Parental Leave in Sweden: The Effects of the Second Daddy Month
Eriksson, Rickard - Institutet för Social Forskning (SOFI), Stockholms … - 2005
In 2002 the number of months reserved for fathers in the Swedish parental leave system increased from one to two. This coincided with an increase of total time of parental leave from 12 to 13 months. The results are obtained using a natural experiment approach, comparing the behavior of parents...
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Kindergeld : im Auftrag der Geschäftsstelle Gesamtevaluation der ehe- und familienbezogenen Leistungen in Deutschland
Rainer, Helmut; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Danzer, Natalia; … - 2013 - März 2012
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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Why the Henry Review Fails on Family Tax Reform
Apps, Patricia F. - 2010
While acknowledging the importance of fairness and the need to avoid creating disincentives in the design of tax reform, the Henry Review recommends a simplified Personal Income Tax and child payments withdrawn on a single family income test. This paper shows that the proposed reforms would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014192440
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Changing fertility and heterogeneous motherhood effects : revisiting the effects of a parental benefits reform
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2024
Using a semiparametric event study approach with a control group, we estimate the effect of motherhood on labor market outcomes in Germany, the child penalty. We further investigate how the 2007 parental benefits reform changed the child penalty while accounting for fertility effects. A large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014527065
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Changing fertility and heterogeneous motherhood effects : revisiting the effects of a parental benefits reform
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2024
Using a semiparametric event study approach with a control group, we estimate the effect of motherhood on labor market outcomes in Germany, the child penalty. We further investigate how the 2007 parental benefits reform changed the child penalty while accounting for fertility effects. A large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014545044
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Can reduced child support make joint custody bad for children? : the role of economic incentives in U.S. divorce law on child outcomes
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer; Sun, Hugette - 2018
This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child … support as those without custody. Merging family and child data from the SIPP with state-level data on economic incentives for … joint custody, we find that fathers' joint custody decisions are significantly affected by the incentives generated by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955833
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Can Reduced Child Support Make Joint Custody Bad for Children? The Role of Economic Incentives in U.S. Divorce Law on Child Outcomes
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2019
This paper examines the effect of economic incentives generated by U.S. divorce and custody law on a range of child … support as those without custody. Merging family and child data from the SIPP with state-level data on economic incentives for … joint custody, we find that fathers' joint custody decisions are significantly affected by the incentives generated by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894547
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The fertility-sex ratio trade-off : unintended consequences of financial incentives
Anukriti, S - 2014
-selection is easily accessible. This paper investigates whether financial incentives can overcome this trade-off in the context of … where the effects of incentives are determined by the strength of son preference, the cost of children, and the cost of sex …-selection, relative to the size of incentives. Second, I create a woman-year panel dataset from retrospective birth histories and use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010258158
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Pension wealth and maternal employment : evidence from a reform of the German child care pension benefit
Thiemann, Andreas - 2015 - Ausgabebezeichnung
This paper uses administrative data to investigate how a change in pension wealth affects a mother’s employment decision after child birth. I exploit the extension of the child care pension benefit in 1992 as a natural experiment in a regression discontinuity design to estimate short- and...
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