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Does single motherhood hurt infant health among young mothers?

Kim, Young-il; Lee, Jungmin - 2017

of coresidence during pregnancy. In this paper, we exploit quasi-natural variation in single motherhood from the moment … birth certificate dataset is unique in that it allows us to distinguish coresidence and legal marital status and further to … identify the duration of pregnancy period without a partner. Results show that although coresidence with the partner during …

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Does single pregnancy hurt birth outcomes among young mothers?

Kim, Young-il; Lee, Jungmin - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 89 (2023) 2, pp. 149-181

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The demand for season of birth

Clarke, Damian; Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2016

We study the determinants of season of birth of the first child, for white married women aged 25-45 in the US, using birth certificate and Census data. We also analyze stated preferences for season of birth using our own Amazon Mechanical Turk survey. The prevalence of quarters 2 and 3 is...

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The effects of motherhood

Markussen, Simen; Strøm, Marte - 2015

We use miscarriage as a biological shock to fertility in order to estimate the causal impact of motherhood on labor market outcomes. The number of instruments is increased by exploiting the response-heterogeneity to miscarriage along three dimensions: time, age, and birth order. This allows us...

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Assessing the impact of the maternity capital policy in Russia

Slonimczyk, Fabián; Jurko, Anna V. - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 30 (2014), pp. 265-281

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Pension wealth and maternal employment : evidence from a reform of the German child care pension benefit

Thiemann, Andreas - 2015 - Ausgabebezeichnung

This paper uses administrative data to investigate how a change in pension wealth affects a mother’s employment decision after child birth. I exploit the extension of the child care pension benefit in 1992 as a natural experiment in a regression discontinuity design to estimate short- and...

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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015

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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Causal effects on employment after first birth : a dynamic treatment approach

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin; Steffes, Susanne - 2013

The effects of childbirth on future labor market outcomes are a key issue for policy discussion. This paper implements a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for the case of Germany, a country with a long maternity...

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Revisiting "mothers and sons" preference formation and the female labor force in Switzerland

Bütikofer, Aline - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 20 (2013), pp. 82-91

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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...

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