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Maternal health and the baby boom
Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 5 (2014) 2, pp. 225-269
Fertility in the United States rose from a low of 2.27 children for women born in 1908 to a peak of 3.21 children for …-twentieth century baby boom and generated a rise in women’s human capital, ultimately leading to a decline in desired fertility for … associated with a rise in fertility for women born between 1921 and 1940, with a rise in college and high school graduation rates …
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Children and female employment in Mongolia
Nikolova, Elena; Polansky, Jakub - 2022
Although a large body of literature has argued that motherhood has a profound and long-lasting negative effect on the employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest round of the EBRD-World Bank Life in Transition...
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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
importantly, we also show for the first time that selection into fertility is the main driver for the previously observed …
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 - 2020
provide suggestive evidence that different selection into fertility drives the opposite counter-cyclical results found in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840771
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Does Unemployment Worsen Babies' Health? A Tale of Siblings, Maternal Behaviour and Selection
De Cao, Elisabetta - 2019
importantly, we also show for the first time that selection into fertility is the main driver for the previously observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863790
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Maternal health and the baby boom
Albanesi, Stefania; Olivetti, Claudia - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 5 (2014) 2, pp. 225-269
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409964
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Maternity leave and the responsiveness of female labor supply to a household shock
Tominey, Emma - 2013
Female labor supply can insure households against shocks to paternal employment. The paper estimates whether the female labor supply response to a paternal employment shock differs by eligibility to maternity employment protection. We exploit time-state variation in the implementation of unpaid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757287
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Do childcare policies increase maternal employment? : subsidized childcare fosters maternal employment, but employment status, childcare quality, and availability matter
Vuri, Daniela - 2016
Women's labor force participation has rapidly increased in most countries, but mothers still struggle to achieve a satisfactory work-life balance. Childcare allows the primary caregiver, usually the mother, to take time away from childrearing for employment. Family policies that subsidize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436632
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The Willingness to Pay for Job Amenities : Evidence from Mothers' Return to Work
Felfe, Christina - 2012
The author examines the extent to which mothers are willing to trade wages for non-wage job attributes within the context of maternity leave. The key aspect of this framework is that mothers can decide whether and when to return to their guaranteed job. In contrast to previous studies that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105241
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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women : Experimental Evidence from Childcare
Galasso, Vincenzo - 2013
Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074410