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Do Couples Bargain over Fertility? New Evidence Based on Child Preference Data
Hener, Timo - 2010
couples also bargain over fertility. In contrast to earlier tests of bargaining models, our empirical approach makes use of … for fertility decisions. Our results also indicate that couples are not able to fully commit to household resource … that the effect of child benefits on fertility could be enhanced by directing transfers to women. …
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Does the Right to Work Part-Time Affect Mothers' Labor Market Outcomes?
Paule-Paludkiewicz, Hannah - 2020
higher-order fertility. I use a differences-in-differences design to investigate the introduction of a German law in 2001 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012287844
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Two-Stage Least Squares Random Forests with a Replication of Angrist and Evans (1998)
Kugler, Philipp; Biewen, Martin - 2020
We develop the case of two-stage least squares estimation (2SLS) in the general framework of Athey et al. (Generalized Random Forests, Annals of Statistics, Vol. 47, 2019) and provide a software implementation for R and C++. We use the method to revisit the classic application of instrumental...
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Effects of Early Childhood Intervention on Maternal Employment, Fertility and Well-Being: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial
Sandner, Malte - 2015
subsequent births. The program s effect on fertility can be explained by higher maternal life satisfaction and well-being in the … studies from the United States, where home visiting programs increased employment and decreased fertility. …
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Moving to an earnings-related parental leave system do heterogeneous effects on parents make some children worse off?
Huber, Katrin - 2015
Can moving to an earnings-related parental leave system influence children s well-being and are heterogeneous effects on parents carried over to the entire family, making special groups of children worse off than others? To answer this question, this study exploits a large and unanticipated...
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The Effects of Free Childcare on Labor Supply and Children
Busse, Anna; Gathmann, Christina - 2015
Many governments have introduced generous childcare subsidies to allow all children access to early childhood education. The effects of these costly programs are however still debated. In this paper, we use the introduction of free public childcare in several states in Germany to analyze its...
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Citizenship and the Social Integration of Immigrants: Evidence from Germany's Immigration Reforms
Keller, Nicolas; Gathmann, Christina; Monscheuer, Ole - 2015
We study whether the option to naturalize improves social and cultural integration of immigrants in the host country. The empirical analysis relies on two immigration reforms in Germany, a country with a traditionally weak record of immigrant integration both in terms of labor market performance...
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Does A Child Quantity-Quality Trade-Off Exist? Evidence from the One-Child Policy in China
Huang, Yue - 2015
Evidence on the existence of a trade-off between child quantity and child quality, as suggested by Gary S. Becker, is still inconclusive. This also holds true for empirical studies on China that exploit for identification the country s One-Child Policy (OCP) as an exogenous source of variation...
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Divorce and the birth control pill
Marcen, Miriam - 2013
This paper explores the role of the birth control pill on divorce. To identify its effect, we use a quasi experiment exploiting the differences in the language of the Comstock anti-obscenity statutes approved in the 1800s and early 1900s in the US. Results suggest that banning the sales of oral...
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Earnings-Dependent Parental Leave Benefit and Fertility: Evidence from Germany
Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2013
This paper examines the effects of a major change in German parental transfer system on fertility. I use the largely …-order fertility. Given the recent introduction, this paper evaluates short-run responses by using data from the German Microcensus …-run fertility responses are less pronounced and vary with potential earnings. The heterogeneity is in line with the structure of …
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