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Maternity benefits and marital stability after birth : evidence from the Soviet Baltic republics

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Malkova, Olga - 2023

Can a policy intervention in the stressful first year after a birth affect marital stability? We examine this question using a large expansion in maternity benefits in 1982 in the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The program provided partially paid leave until the child's first...

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Common law marriage and teen births

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Vernon, Victoria - 2015

Using microdata from Current Population Survey Fertility supplements 1990-2010 we examine whether Common Law Marriage …

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The twin instrument : fertility and human capital investment

Bhalotra, Sonia; Clarke, Damian - 2018

Twin births are often used to instrument fertility to address (negative) selection of women into fertility. However …, twin-IV estimates will tend to be upward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that fertility has limited …

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Twin birth and maternal condition

Bhalotra, Sonia; Clarke, Damian - 2018

implies that estimates of impacts of fertility on parental investments and on women's labour supply that use twin births to … instrument fertility will tend to be downward biased. This is pertinent given the emerging consensus that these relationships are …

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Parental leave, (in)formal childcare and long-term child outcomes

Danzer, Natalia; Halla, Martin; Schneeweis, Nicole; … - 2017

. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child outcomes and potential mediators. We evaluate …'s counterfactual work behavior. We show that extending parental leave has significant positive effects on children's health and human …

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