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well as the effects of pregnancy and caretaking for small children. We find each child reduces female earnings by around 18 …%, only part of it due to reduced work hours. We find no evidence of an adverse health effect of having children. …
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We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....
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Using data on American women and the health status of their children, this paper studies the effect of remote work on … children must be temporarily quarantined. …
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We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly incorporates mental and physical health. Correlated mental and physical health production functions are simultaneously estimated, including the endogenous decisions to seek...
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to care for their new children. While there is substantial variation in the details of these policies around the world … introduction of short paid and unpaid leave programs can improve children's short- and long-term outcomes. Fourth, while more …
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-market opportunities on sleep patterns; the effect of having children; the consequences of the decreased division of labor within the …
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employment and obesity in children aged 3-17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for … between maternal employment and our measures for children's diet and physical activity. Our study also suggests that …
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's counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …
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's counter-factual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and …
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We show that sleep deprivation exerts strong negative effects on mothers' labour market performance. To isolate exogenous variations in maternal sleep, we exploit unique variations in child sleep disruption using a UK panel dataset that follows mother-child pairs through time. We find that...
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