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The effect of children on the level of labor market involvement of married women : what is the role of education?
Troske, Kenneth R.; Voicu, Alexandru - 2009
propose an econometric model that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, for the heterogeneity … of the effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and for the correlation of sequential … ; education ; endogenous fertility decisions ; heterogeneous children effects ; multinomial probit model ; Gibbs sampler …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003826112
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The effect of the timing and spacing of births on the level of labor market involvement of married women
Troske, Kenneth R.; Voicu, Alexandru - 2009
women in a framework that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, the heterogeneity of the … effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and the correlation of sequential labor market … part time jobs. Individual heterogeneity plays an important role in the relationship between labor market and fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003898126
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Frontier History and Gender Norms in the United States
Bazzi, Samuel; Brodeur, Abel; Fiszbein, Martín; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land abundance favored higher fertility. The demands of childcare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014247997
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Examining the impact of Legal Arizona Worker Act on native female labor supply in the United States
Gunadi, Christian - In: IZA journal of labor policy 10 (2020) 1/3, pp. 1-41
Low-skilled immigration has been argued to lower the price of services that are close substitutes for household production, reducing barriers for women to enter the labor market. Therefore, policies that reduce the number of low-skilled immigrants who work predominantly in low-skilled service...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294909
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669824
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Child Penalties and Parental Role Models : Classroom Exposure Effects
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Olivero, Giulia; Patacchini, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper investigates whether the effects of children on the labor market outcomes of women relative to men -- child penalties -- are shaped by the work behavior of peers' parents during adolescence. Leveraging quasi-random variation in the fraction of peers with working parents across cohorts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072943
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Fertility and labor market responses to reductions in mortality
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; … - 2018
We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to large declines in child and maternal mortality … need to achieve their target number of children. This prompts fertility delay and labor market entry which, coupled with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011893607
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Fertility and labor market responses to reductions in mortality
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; … - 2018
We investigate women's fertility, labor, and marriage market responses to large declines in child mortality in the U ….S. Fertility declined on the intensive margin as expected. However, despite the increasing value of having at least one child, a … larger share of women remained childless. We explain these findings with a new theory of fertility that includes fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011938854
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Fertility and Labor Market Responses to Reductions in Mortality
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2018
We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to large declines in child and maternal mortality … need to achieve their target number of children. This prompts fertility delay and labor market entry which, coupled with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912765
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The long-run effects of California's Paid Family Leave Act on women's careers and childbearing : new evidence from a regression discontinuity design and U.S. tax data
Bailey, Martha J.; Byker, Tanya; Patel, Elena; Ramnath, … - 2024
We use administrative tax data to analyze the cumulative, long-run effects of California's 2004 Paid Family Leave Act (CPFL) on women's employment, earnings, and childbearing. A regression-discontinuity design exploits the sharp increase in the weeks of paid leave available under the law. We...
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