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This paper uses unique administrative data to expand the understanding of the role women's intermittency decisions play in the determination of their wages. We demonstrate that treating intermittency as exogenous significantly overstates its impact. The intermittency penalty also increases in...
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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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health and women's earnings following IVF birth, along-side an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first …
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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 female earnings. Instrumental variables estimates, which exploit a temporary child health shock as exogenous variation in the propensity to work at home, yield an hourly wage...
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This paper shows that globalization has far-reaching implications for the economy's fertility rate and family structure … competition lead to a shift towards family, with more parental leave and higher fertility as well as more marriages and fewer …−if the worker is a woman. The female biological clock−low fertility beyond the early forties−is central to this gender …
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Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....
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and an increase in subsequent fertility. We provide the first comprehensive evaluation of SET. This is relevant given the …
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research on the relationship between fertility and women's labour force participation. It surveys methods used to obtain causal … across the lifecycle and across successive cohorts; and of recognizing that women's choices over both fertility and labour … health technologies have muted the familycareer tradeoff primarily by allowing women to time their fertility, policy has not …
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Fertility in the US exhibits an increasingly more procyclical pattern. We argue that women's breadwinner status is … behind procyclical fertility: (i) women's relative income in the family has increased over time; and (ii) women are more … effect of women's income. Our quantitative framework features a general equilibrium OLG model with endogenous fertility and …
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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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