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Bargaining over babies : theory, evidence, and policy implications
Doepke, Matthias; Kindermann, Fabian - 2016
It takes a woman and a man to make a baby. This fact suggests that for a birth to take place, the parents should first agree on wanting a child. Using newly available data on fertility preferences and outcomes, we show that indeed, babies are likely to arrive only if both parents desire one, and...
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Intrahousehold decision making and fertility
Doepke, Matthias; Kindermann, Fabian - 2014
The economic theory of fertility choice builds predominantly on the unitary model of the household, in which there is a single household utility function and potential intra-household disagreement is abstracted from. Empirical evidence suggests, however, that many (potential) mothers and fathers...
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Can immigrants help women "have it all"? : immigrant labor and women's joint fertility and labor supply decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2014
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...
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Fertility responses of high-skilled native women to immigrant inflows
Furtado, Delia - 2014
While there is debate regarding the magnitude of the impact, immigrant inflows are generally understood to depress wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the over-representation of the foreign-born in the childcare industry, this paper examines whether...
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Three family policies to reconcile fertility and labor supply
Fenge, Robert; Stadler, Lisa - 2014
, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children …, the secondary earner's labor supply and welfare. Child benefits and subsidies for external child care are more effective … in balancing family and work than parental leave payments. The welfare analysis shows that the introduction of subsidies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010388733
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Behavioral response of non-resident parents to child support obligations : evidence from SOEP
Schaubert, Marianna - 2018
The present paper investigates how parents responsible for child maintenance payments have re sponded to changes in the amount of obligations. The potential endogeneity of child support obligations is addressed by using SOEP panel data from 1985-2013 and applying individual FE-IV models. Results...
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Who takes care of the children? : the quantity-quality model revisited
Lundholm, Michael; Ohlsson, Henry - 2000
We study the Becker and Lewis (1973) quantity quality model of children adding an explicit child care time constraint for parents. They can purchase day care or take care of the children themselves. Our results are: (i) If there is a combination of purchased and own care, the effect of income on...
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An Analysis of Women's Fertility and Labor Supply: Implications for Family Policies
Cho, Yoonyoung - Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of … - 2006
, conditional childcare subsidies, pronatal income tax, and maternal leaves. The findings show that providing benefits conditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018356
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The Financial Impact of Government Policies on Families with Children in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia
Švarcová, Natálie; Švarc, Petr - In: Czech Economic Review 3 (2009) 1, pp. 048-068
In the presented paper we focus on the two ways in which family policy influences life of the society. Firstly, we discuss incentives that the family policy provides to families when they are deciding about having a child. Secondly, we describe the impact of family policies on standard of living...
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The Impact of Social and Tax Policies on Families with Children: Comparative Study of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia
Švarcová, Natálie; Švarc, Petr - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 2007
government subsidies and tax systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia on the net income of families with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005698702