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employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of … progression toward more egalitarian attitudes in the pre-pandemic period. Attitudes by women are not affected. These findings … suggest that the pandemic not only affected the short-term allocation of housework and childcare, but also reversed recent …
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employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of … progression toward more egalitarian attitudes in the pre-pandemic period. Attitudes by women are not affected. These findings … suggest that the pandemic not only affected the short-term allocation of housework and childcare, but also reversed recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581461
employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of … progression toward more egalitarian attitudes in the pre-pandemic period. Attitudes by women are not affected. These findings … suggest that the pandemic not only affected the short-term allocation of housework and childcare, but also reversed recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012543787
Mothers' longer time on parental leave after having children has been proposed as one reason for remaining gender … the argument that mothers take more parental leave as a consequence of pregnancy and breastfeeding. We compare the … assess to what extend the unequal division of childcare responsibilities can be explained by the physiological aspects of …
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health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …IVF allows women to delay birth and pursue careers, but IVF massively increases the risk of twin birth. There is … limited evidence of how having twins influences women's post-birth careers. We investigate this, leveraging a single embryo …
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In vitro fertilization (IVF) has allowed women to delay birth and pursue a career, but it massively increasesthe risk … of twin birth. We investigate the extent to which having twins hampers women's careers after birth. To do this, we … identify substantial improvements in women's earnings following IVF birth, alongside improvements in maternal and child health …
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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 successfully and unsuccessfully first-time treated women and men …
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I examine how one central aspect of the family environment - sibling sex composition - affects women's gender … for first-born women. I show that women with a brother acquire more traditional gender roles, as measured through their … choice of occupation and partner. This results in a stronger response to motherhood in labor market outcomes. As a relevant …
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We study the effects of sons versus daughters on parental joint time allocation between thelabor market and the household. Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Surveyfrom 1989 to 2006, we apply a fixed-effects model to control for cross-household hetero-geneity in son preference. We...
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mothers are perceived as still having worse health at older ages, even if their objective health status has recovered. These … boys are also more likely to have private health insurance, which suggests more concerned mothers. …
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