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Maternity and family leave policy
Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2017
Maternity and family leave policies enable mothers to take time off work to prepare for and recover from childbirth and to care for their new children. While there is substantial variation in the details of these policies around the world, the existing research yields the following general...
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The evolving impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender inequality in the U.S. labor market: the COVID motherhood penalty
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2021
We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school-age children have widened but not for those with younger children....
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The Effect of Expanding Paid Maternity Leave on Maternal Health : Evidence From the United States Air Force & Army
Balser, Cary - 2020
We assess the impact of fully paid maternity leave on maternal health in the year after birth. We exploit a sudden expansion of paid leave from 6 to 12 weeks in the United States Army and Air Force to estimate impacts under regression discontinuity and difference in differences frameworks....
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2015
partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, but the magnitude of the estimated responses is … small. We cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance against temporary shocks. Another interpretation of our findings is … that there is very little insurance available, but the fact that skill is a non-separable function of parental investments …
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Partial insurance and investments in children
Carneiro, Pedro; Ginja, Rita - 2012
partial insurance of parental investments against permanent income shocks, and we cannot reject the hypothesis full insurance … 10% of family income leads, at most, to an increase in investments of 1.3% of a standard deviation. -- insurance ; human …
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An Overview of Welfare-to-Work Efforts
Blank, Rebecca M. - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 2, pp. 3-7
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Welfare Reform, Work and Wages: A Summary of the US Experience
Grogger, Jeffrey; Karoly, Lynn A. - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 2, pp. 8-12
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Welfare time limits in the United States : experiences with a new welfare-to-work approach
Ochel, Wolfgang - 2004
This paper reviews the evidence on welfare time limits in the United States. It primarily refers to experimental and econometric evaluations. Time limits affect welfare recipients both before and after their limits are reached. Time limits reduce welfare receipt and increase employment before...
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United States Economic Expansion and Social Policy During the 1990's : Implications for Poor Americans
McFayden, Elgie - 2013
This paper examines the impact of policies and programs implemented by the United States federal government during the 1990's on poor Americans. The primary objective of this review is to determine how poverty reduction policies and programs, along with the significant economic expansion of the...
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Welfare Time Limits in the United States - Experiences with a New Welfare-to-Work Approach
Ochel, Wolfgang - 2021
This paper reviews the evidence on welfare time limits in the United States. It primarily refers to experimental and econometric evaluations. Time limits affect welfare recipients both before and after their limits are reached. Time limits reduce welfare receipt and increase employment before...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319220