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Explaining How Delayed Motherhood Affects Fertility Dynamics in Europe
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2009
This paper analyzes the effect of delayed motherhood on fertility dynamics for women living in several European …
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Work and children in Spain : challenges and opportunities for equality between men and women
Hupkau, Claudia; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 13 (2022) 1, pp. 243-268
policies, such as paternity leave expansions, financial incentives in the form of tax credits for working mothers and …
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Motherhood, pregnancy or marriage effects?
Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2021
The existence of large child penalties has been documented for multiple countries and time periods. In this paper, we assess to what extent marriage decisions and pregnancies (rather than live births), which tend to occur around the birth of the first child, explain part of the so-called...
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Unintended consequences of family planning policies on the breastfeeding gap between sons and daughters
Chae, Minhee; Cai, Yong; Kim, Jun Hyung; Lavely, William R. - 2023
We examine the effect of a Chinese family planning policy (FPP) known as "Later, Longer, and Fewer" on the gender gap in breastfeeding. We find that FPP increased the daughter-son breastfeeding gap in favor of sons in rural areas. Mean intensity of the FPP predicts the gender gap to be 35%...
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Endogenous maternity allowances as exemplified by academic promotion standards
Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2019
productive if they choose to become mothers. Even though motherhood temporarily handicaps their productivity, it is exactly this … cost of motherhood that signals the mothers' intrinsic high productivity. I explicitly refer to the academic labor market …
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Is there really a child penalty in the long run? : new evidence from IVF treatments
Lundborg, Petter; Plug, Erik J. S.; Rasmussen, Astrid Würtz - 2024
Newly matched data on in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments are used to estimate the long-run consequences of children on the labor market earnings of women and men (often referred to as child penalties). We measure long-run child penalties in IVF-treated families by comparing the earnings of...
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Fertility, Son-Preference, and the Reversal of the Gender Gap in Literacy/Numeracy Tests
Chae, Minhee; Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2023
This study examines the relationship between fertility decline and the reversal/narrowing of the gender gap in literacy … fertility would make girls more likely to live in a single-sex family, which in turn increases the share of human capital … exogenous variation in fertility due to China's family planning policy. Utilising the policy intensity information collected …
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Teenage motherhood, education, and labor market outcomes of the mother : evidence from Brazilian data
Narita, Renata Del Tedesco; Diaz, Maria Dolores Montoya - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 17 (2016) 2, pp. 238-252
This paper studies the effects of teenage motherhood on later educational and labor market achievement of the mothers … school completion and labor market participation than for schooling or wages. A reduction in teenage pregnancy by one …
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Academic careers and fertility decisions
De Paola, Maria; Nisticò, Roberto; Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2021
increase in fertility. …
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Sinkende Geburtenraten als Herausforderung für den Wohlfahrtsstaat : Lösungswege der Familien- und Arbeitsmarktpolitik im internationalen Vergleich
Groß, Thomas; Hardmeier, Sibylle - 2009
Die zentrale Stoßrichtung dieser Arbeit ist es, Wege für eine erfolgreiche Familienpolitik aufzuzeigen. Basierend auf einem 16-Ländersample und unter Zuhilfenahme des neuen MVQCA-Ansatzes (eine Weiterentwicklung der QCA-Methode) werden unterschiedliche europäische familienpolitische...
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