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For some mothers more than others : how children matter for labour market outcomes when both fertility and female employment are low

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michał - 2012 - Corrected version, November 2012

We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children. Among families with at least one child we identify the...

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Childcare availability and maternal labour supply in Russia

Kazakova, Yuliya - 2019

Over the past 15 years, Russia experienced an increase in childcare enrolment from 55% to 66.2%, reflecting an increase … in childcare availability that was rolled out unequally across the Russian regions - the enrolment rate has increased … from less than 1% in some regions to almost 35% in other regions. Exploiting a substantial variation in childcare …

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Parental labour supply responses to the abolition of day care fees

Huebener, Mathias; Pape, Astrid; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2019

This paper provides evidence that low private contributions to highly subsidised day care constrain mothers from working longer hours. We study the effects of a reform that abolished day care fees in Germany on parental labour supply. The reform removed private contributions to highly subsidised...

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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families

Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019

We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....

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Life‐cycle and intergenerational effects of child care reforms

Chan, Marc K.; Liu, Kai - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 2, pp. 659-706

We investigate the importance of various mechanisms by which child care policies can affect life‐cycle patterns of employment and fertility among women, as well as long‐run cognitive outcomes among children. A dynamic structural model of employment, fertility, and child care use is estimated...

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Does subsidized care for Toddlers increase maternal labor supply? : evidence from a large-scale expansion of early childcare

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2018

Expanding public or publicly subsidized childcare has been a top social policy priority in many industrialized … this paper, we analyze the causal effect of one of the largest expansions of subsidized childcare for children up to three … temporal variation in the expansion of publicly subsidized childcare triggered by two comprehensive childcare policy reforms …

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Behavioral response of non-resident parents to child support obligations : evidence from SOEP

Schaubert, Marianna - 2018

The present paper investigates how parents responsible for child maintenance payments have re sponded to changes in the amount of obligations. The potential endogeneity of child support obligations is addressed by using SOEP panel data from 1985-2013 and applying individual FE-IV models. Results...

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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017

We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid...

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Evaluating how child allowances and daycare subsidies affect fertility

Goldstein, Joshua R.; Koulovatianos, Christos; Li, Jian; … - 2017 - This version: January 31, 2017

two evaluation tools: (i) a dynamic model on fertility, labor supply, outsourced childcare time, parental time, asset …

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School entry, afternoon care and mothers' labour supply

Gambaro, Ludovica; Marcus, Jan; Peter, Frauke - 2016

Most literature on the relationship between childcare availability and maternal labour force participation examines … childcare for preschool aged children. Yet families must continue to arrange childcare once their children enter primary school … highlight how childcare availability shapes maternal employment patterns well after school entry. …

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