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We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by … causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and … penalty. Test score effects are positive for children aged 4-7 (substitution from grandparental to maternal care), and …
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-income, first-time mothers. A major goal of the program is to improve the participants’ economic self-sufficiency and family … welfare state arrangements for disadvantaged mothers with young children in Germany. …
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This paper presents results from a randomized evaluation of a home visiting program for disadvantaged first-time mothers and their families implemented in three German federal states. I analysis the impact of the intervention on maternal employment, school attendance, child care use, fertility,...
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We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Combining a regression discontinuity with a difference-in-differences design, we find...
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the household. Using a sample of PSID-CDS children, we investigate whether the birth order effects in their outcomes are …
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We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members’ labor supply and child outcomes by … causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and … penalty. Test score effects are positive for children aged 4-7 (substitution from grandparental to maternal care), and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081430
We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by … causes adult daughters with young children to work half an hour less. Daughters without children, with older children and … penalty. Test score effects are positive for children aged 4-7 (substitution from grandparental to maternal care), and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013271148
three-year-old children as well as the socio-emotional behavior of five- to six-year-old children. We use data from the …
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three-year-old children as well as the socio-emotional behavior of five- to six-year-old children. We use data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200149
This article describes a conceptual and empirical approach for estimating a human capital production function of child development that incorporates mother- or child-fixed effects. The use of mother- or child-fixed effects is common in this applied economics literature, but its application is...
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