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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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Mothers' Care : Reversing Early Childhood Health Shocks Through Parental Investments
Bellés-Obrero, Cristina - 2019
mothers are perceived as still having worse health at older ages, even if their objective health status has recovered. These … boys are also more likely to have private health insurance, which suggests more concerned mothers …
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Gender gaps from labor market shocks
Ivandic, Ria; Lassen, Anne Sophie - 2023
Job loss leads to persistent adverse labor market outcomes, but assessments of gender differences in labor market recovery are lacking. We utilize plant closures in Denmark to estimate gender gaps in labor market outcomes and document that women face an increased risk of unemployment and lose a...
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Delayed First Birth and New Mothers' Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from Biological Fertility Shocks
Bratti, Massimiliano - 2013
We investigate the impact of delaying the first birth on Italian mothers' labor market outcomes around childbirth. The … stillbirths. Focusing on mothers' behavior around first birth our study is able to isolate the effect of motherhood postponement … evidence that late motherhood prevents a worsening of new mothers' job conditions (the so-called "mommy track"). Our findings …
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Mothers' status, food price shock and child nutrition in Karnataka
Banerjee, Debosree; Klasen, Stephan - 2018
to capture intrahousehold dimensions of women's empowerment. Endogenous status in our study is measured by mothers' work … and wasting. We therefore conclude that mothers' status, measured by time is more important to improve child nutritional …
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Sectoral Shocks and Spillovers : An Application to Covid-19
Das, Sonali; Wingender, Philippe; Pugacheva, Evgenia; … - 2022
This paper examines the role of sectoral spillovers in propagating sectoral shocks in the broader economy, both in the past and during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, we study how shocks that occur within a sector itself and spillovers from shocks to other sectors affect sectoral activity,...
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Pandemic shocks and household spending
Finck, David; Tillmann, Peter - 2020
We study the response of daily household spending to the unexpected component of the COVID-19 pandemic, which we label as pandemic shock. Based on daily forecasts of the number of fatalities, we construct the surprise component as the difference between the actual and the expected number of...
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Mothers' care : reversing early childhood health shocks through parental investments
Bellés-Obrero, Cristina; Cabrales, Antonio; … - 2019
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Covid-19 Shock on Employment : Gender Gap and the Implications
Kim, Jiyeon - 2022
■ The Covid-19 crisis has diminished the labor demand in business areas where women are mainly engaged in, such as in-person services, and restricted the supply of married women due to the increased burden of at-home child care. As a result, the employment shock was concentrated on women...
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COVID-19, income shocks, and women’s employment in India
Bansal, Ishaan; Mahajan, Kanika - In: Feminist economics 29 (2023) 4, pp. 285-317
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