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International trade and the transmission of temperature shocks
Osberghaus, Daniel; Schenker, Oliver - 2022
We examine how the adverse impacts of weather shocks are distributed through the trade network. Exploiting a rich …, theoretically derived, fixed effects structure, we find significant negative short-run effects of high temperature on exports. A … month with an average temperature above 30 °C implies export losses of around three percent. These effects are increasing in …
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Retirement, intergenerational time transfers, and fertility
Eibich, Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2020
Retired parents might invest time into their adult children by providing childcare. Such intergenerational time transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult children's fertility. We use representative panel data...
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Retirement, intergenerational time transfers, and fertility
Eibich, Peter; Siedler, Thomas - 2020
Retired parents might invest time into their adult children by providing childcare. Such intergenerational time transfers can have important implications for family decisions. This paper estimates the effects of parental retirement on adult children's fertility. We use representative panel data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012178365
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Chapter 57 Child Labor
Edmonds, Eric V. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 4, (pp. 3607-3709). 2007
In recent years, there has been an astonishing proliferation of empirical work on child labor. An Econlit search of keywords “child lab*r” reveals a total of 6 peer reviewed journal articles between 1980 and 1990, 65 between 1990 and 2000, and 143 in the first five years of the present...
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Do Parents Drink Their Children's Welfare? A Joint Analysis of Intra-Household Allocation of Time
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2013
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether excessive parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases time spent by parents looking after their children and working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring...
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Taxation and Parental Time Allocation Under Different Assumptions on Altruism
Casarico, Alessandra - 2014
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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Taxation and parental time allocation under different assumptions on altruism
Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256101
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Home Production of Childcare and Labour Supply Decisions in a Collective Household Model
Turon, Hélène - 2019
This paper proposes a dynamic structural model of labour market and childcare choices for couples within a collective model of decision making. We formalise explicitly the need for childcare as a function of the age structure of the children population in the household then examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870355
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Home production of childcare and labour supply decisions in a collective household model
Turon, Hélène - 2019
This paper proposes a dynamic structural model of labour market and childcare choices for couples within a collective model of decision making. We formalise explicitly the need for childcare as a function of the age structure of the children population in the household then examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979076
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Intra-household insurance and the intergenerational transmission of income risk
Agostinelli, Francesco; Ferraro, Domenico; Qiu, Xincheng; … - 2024
This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or not work at all, time spent with children, and...
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