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%, only part of it due to reduced work hours. We find no evidence of an adverse health effect of having children. …
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Using data on American women and the health status of their children, this paper studies the effect of remote work on … female earnings. Instrumental variables estimates, which exploit a temporary child health shock as exogenous variation in the …
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We study how becoming a grandparent affects grandparents' labor supply. In a simple model of the allocation of time in … grandparents and grandchildren live and during the first years since becoming a grandparent (i.e., when the grandchildren are …
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Working-age grandparents supply large amounts of child care, an observation that raises the question of how having … grandchildren affects grandparents' own labor supply. Exploiting the unique genealogical design of the PSID and the random variation … in the timing when the parents of first-born boys and girls become grandparents, we estimate a structural labor supply …
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, the one provided by grandparents. Empirically, assessing the effect of grandparental childcare is not an easy task due to … preferences as arising from the non-compliance of mothers to the availability of grandparents and from preferences of grandparents …
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The growth of self-employment and in particular gig work may explain part of the declining fertility rates observed in many countries. This study examines this question drawing on longitudinal data to compare women’s fertility, proxied by maternity leave uptake, when self-employed or wage...
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This paper evaluates how a light-touch parenting program for parents of children below school entry age affects maternal well-being. We first analyze data from a randomized controlled trial focusing on more advantaged parents. Second, we use a sample of mothers from deprived neighborhoods, for...
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We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with weak labor market attachment, applying dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection. We show that the program is successful in increasing employment and reducing social assistance....
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The labor supply effects of becoming a grandmother are not well established in the empirical literature. We estimate the effect of becoming a grandmother on the labor supply decision of older workers. Under the assumption that grandmothers cannot predict the exact date of conception of their...
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The labor supply effects of becoming a grandmother are not well established in the empirical literature. We estimate the effect of becoming a grandmother on the labor supply decision of older workers. Under the assumption that grandmothers cannot predict the exact date of conception of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794069