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The effect of child benefit on female labor supply
Magda, Iga; Kiełczewska, Aneta; Brandt, Nicola - In: IZA journal of labor policy 10 (2020) 1/17, pp. 1-18
In 2016, the Polish government introduced a large child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility and reduce child poverty. It is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. We study the impact of the new benefit on female labor...
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The effects of large universal child benefits on female labour supply
Magda, Iga; Kiełczewska, Aneta; Brandt, Nicola - 2018
In 2016 the Polish government introduced a large new child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. Increasing out-of-work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011881213
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Trends of children's height and parental unemployment: a large-scale anthropometric study on Eastern Germany, 1994 - 2006
Baten, Jörg; Böhm, Andreas - 2008
information on parents' schooling and employment status. Unemployment might have negative psychological effects, with impact on … unemployment was in fact the major driving force. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264283
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Does Unemployment Worsen Babies’ Health? A Tale of Siblings, Maternal Behaviour and Selection
De Cao, Elisabetta - 2020
In this paper we study the effect of unemployment on birth outcomes by exploiting geographical variation in the … unemployment rate across local areas in England, and comparing siblings born to the same mother via sibling fixed effects. Using …-cyclical. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health which varies from strongly adverse for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840771
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Trends of Children's Height and Parental Unemployment : A Large-Scale Anthropometric Study on Eastern Germany, 1994 - 2006
Baten, Jörg; Böhm, Andreas - 2021
information on parents' schooling and employment status. Unemployment might have negative psychological effects, with impact on … unemployment was in fact the major driving force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316616
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Does unemployment worsen babies' health? : a tale of siblings, maternal behaviour and selection
De Cao, Elisabetta; McCormick, Barry; Nicodemo, Catia - 2019
We study the effect of unemployment on birth outcomes by exploiting geographical variation in the unemployment rate …-percentage point increase in the unemployment rate leads to an increase in low birth weight and preterm babies of respectively 1.3 and … 1.4%, and a 0.1% decrease in foetal growth. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099571
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Does Unemployment Worsen Babies' Health? A Tale of Siblings, Maternal Behaviour and Selection
De Cao, Elisabetta - 2019
We study the effect of unemployment on birth outcomes by exploiting geographical variation in the unemployment rate …-percentage point increase in the unemployment rate leads to an increase in low birth weight and preterm babies of respectively 1.3 and … 1.4%, and a 0.1% decrease in foetal growth. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863790
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Parental Unemployment and Adolescents' Academic Performance
Drydakis, Nick - 2023
During the Great Recession, the increase in Greece's unemployment rate was the highest in the European Union. However …, there exists no multivariate study which has assessed the association between parental unemployment and adolescents' grades … the grades of adolescents were associated with parental unemployment. The exogeneity of parental unemployment with respect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014257566
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Why do educated mothers matter? A model of parental help
Canova, Luciano; Vaglio, Alessandro - 2010
This paper investigates the role performed by mothers in affecting their childrens' performance at school. The article develops firstly a theoretical model in which household (parent-child pair) is treated as an individual, whose utility depends both on the performance at school of the student...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303836
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Die fiskalische Bilanz eines Kindes im deutschen Steuer- und Sozialsystem: Studie im Auftrag der Robert Bosch Stiftung
Werding, Martin; Hofmann, Herbert - 2005
Die vorliegende Studie wurde im Auftrag der Robert Bosch Stiftung im ifo Arbeitsbereich "Sozialpolitik und Arbeitsmärkte" erstellt und im Juni 2005 abgeschlossen, um die Arbeit der von der Bosch Stiftung initiierten Kommission "Familie und demographischer Wandel" zu unterstützen. Gegenstand...
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