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In this paper, we explore the links between polygyny and female labour supply in Senegal using a nationally representative survey. In a reduced-form approach, we first measure the impact of polygyny on participation using a joint model of spouse participation. The identification of the impact of...
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We estimate a structural life-cycle model of fertility and female labour supply and use it to evaluate the effects of a number of key family policy measures based on data for Germany. Parental leave benefits, child benefits and subsidized childcare are found to have substantial fertility...
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In 30% of young American couples the wife is more educated than the husband. Those women are characterized by a …
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falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the … affects labour market participation of men and women in Indonesia -- a country that has seen dramatic changes in the labour … market over recent decades. The finding is that women reduce their working hours in response to the higher fecundity in both …
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falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the … affects labour market participation of men and women in Indonesia - a country that has seen dramatic changes in the labour … market over recent decades. The finding is that women reduce their working hours in response to the higher fecundity in both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778435
We formalize and estimate the dynamic marginal efficiency cost of redistribution (MECR) in the spirit of Okun’s “leaky bucket” to compare the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and of the income-contingent tax and transfer schedule. We set up a dynamic structural model...
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Programs that increase the economic capacity of poor women can have cascading effects on children's participation in … providing capital and training to women in poor rural communities in Nicaragua affected children. Children in beneficiary … households are more likely to attend school one year after the end of the intervention. An increase in women's influence on …
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We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and the labor market. They then match based on the...
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We develop an equilibrium lifecycle model of education, marriage and labor supply and consumption in a transferable utility context. Individuals start by choosing their investments in education anticipating returns in the marriage market and the labor market. They then match based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986539
In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...
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