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particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …
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employment and fertility among women, as well as long‐run cognitive outcomes among children. A dynamic structural model of … employment, fertility, and child care use is estimated using Norwegian administrative data. The estimation exploits a large … that the reform generates sizable changes in employment and fertility decisions, especially among low‐education women. We …
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This paper studies the effects of teenage motherhood on later educational and labor market achievement of the mothers. We construct a pseudo panel from the Brazilian Household Surveys (the 1992-2004 PNADs) and from the Health Ministry data (DATASUS 1981-1992) by state of birth and cohort. We...
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affects fertility in China. China has deep concerns with both population size and female employment, so the relationship … between the two should be better understood. Causality flows in both directions; hence, we use a plausible instrumental … variable to isolate the effect of employment on fertility. Female employment reduces a married woman’s preferred number of …
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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 …
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Using data from social security records and an event study approach, we estimate the child penalty in Spain, looking at disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the year after the first child is born, mothers’...
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This paper constructs and estimates a dynamic discrete choice structural model of female employment and fertility … effects of cash benefits seem modest. Overall, parental leave policies have little effect on fertility. …
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This paper estimates the effects of having children at home on the labor market outcomes of women in Mexico during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings suggest that women with children at home experienced some additional negative impacts on their labor supply immediately after...
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In addition to regular marriage, Australia, Brazil, and 11 US states recognize common law (or de facto) marriage, which allows one or both cohabiting partners to claim, under certain conditions, that an informal union is a marriage. France and some other countries also have several types of...
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married mothers' employment and fertility rates, paying special attention to heterogeneous effects. A heterogeneous agent … model, populated by married households who make decisions related to labour supply and fertility, and the Spanish economy … the fertility rate to increase, but it implies a significant adjustment in tax rates to maintain the same fiscal balance …
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