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Completed fertility effects of family policy measures : evidence from a life-cycle model
Abiry, Raphael; Reuß, Karsten; Stichnoth, Holger - 2014
We estimate a structural life-cycle model of fertility and female labour supply and use it to evaluate the effects of a … childcare are found to have substantial fertility effects. Without these measures, completed fertility is estimated to be lower … a negligible effect on fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010416355
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If Not Now, When? The Timing of Childbirth and Labour Market Outcomes
Picchio, Matteo - 2018
We study the effect of childbirth and its timing on female labour market outcomes in Italy. The impact on yearly labour earnings and fraction of time at work is traced up to 21 years since school completion by estimating a factor analytic model with dynamic selection into treatments. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012929093
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Gender-specific effects of import competition on individual fertility decisions
Piriu, Andreea A. - 2020
This paper studies the effects of import competition from China and Eastern Europe (EE) on the fertility decisions of … import competition to longitudinal individual data to examine individual fertility. Two separate measures of import exposure … remarkably during the panel years. Fixed-effects instrumental variable (FEIV) estimation results show that individual fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313045
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Daddy months
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2014
We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010422205
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Retirement, intergenerational time transfers, and fertility
Eibich, Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2020
children's fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We … retirement affects only the timing of adult children's fertility, without having an effect on total fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178365
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Labor market frictions and lowest low fertility
Guner, Nezih; Kaya, Ezgi; Sánchez Marcos, Virginia - 2019
The total fertility rate is well below its replacement level of 2.1 children in high-income countries. Why do women … choose such low fertility levels? We study how labor market frictions affect the fertility of college-educated women. We …-shift schedules increase the completed fertility of college-educated from 1.52 to 1.88. These reforms enable women to have more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138304
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Retirement, intergenerational time transfers, and fertility
Eibich, Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2020
children's fertility. We use representative panel data from Germany to link observations on parents and adult children. We … retirement affects only the timing of adult children's fertility, without having an effect on total fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214862
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The effect of fertility on female labor supply in a labor market with extensive informality
Tumen, Semih; Turan, Belgi - 2020
This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly … focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable …. We find that fertility causally affects female labor supply. After the first twin birth, female labor supply declines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390279
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How important are mental and physical health in career and family choices?
Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2024
We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … forms of health on other life dynamics, with better mental health having stronger impacts on marriage and fertility outcomes … employment have long-lasting eects on life decisions, life satisfaction, and income due to their interaction with fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582273
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Daddy months : conference paper
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2014
We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to having a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483880