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early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel …
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early motherhood for the mother have been extensively investigated, the impact on their children is severely understudied … maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026021
phases of childhood and early adolescence. Our results indicate that children born to early mothers are shorter for their age …
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their young children longer, the conflict between women’s dual roles as full-time worker and full-time mother is reduced …
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their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet …, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are insignificant for both male and female children. The sons of treated …
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on sibling differences and (ii) reverse causality by focusing on parents' employment when children are aged 0-3. We use …This paper analyzes whether there exists a causal relationship between parental employment and children's educational … attainment. We address potential endogeneity problems due to (i) selection of parents in the labor market by estimating a model …
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Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers' labor force … participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the … parents' jobs and can play a role in reducing inequality. …
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Ample empirical evidence has shown that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers’ labor … increased childcare for primary school children improved the quality of the jobs that mothers found. Combining plausibly …-educated mothers benefited most from the reform. Childcare can increase household welfare by improving parents’ jobs and, thus, can …
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non-married cohabiting parents. This effect results from a reduced risk of single parenthood among women who gained from …
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Worldwide governments discuss how to increase maternal labor market participation and to reduce the child penalty, i.e. labor market earnings losses after child birth. This study analyses the long run effects of a German paid parental leave reform, which aims to increase maternal labour market...
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