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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 …

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Heterogeneous Effects of Women's Schooling on Fertility, Literacy and Work: Evidence from Burundi's Free Primary Education Policy

Wild, Frederik; Stadelmann, David - 2020

situated at all wealth levels, the relevant downstream effects of schooling - measured by fertility, literacy and employment … reduced fertility through policy induced education, while there are almost no effects of additional education for non …-poor women. Our findings help in evaluating the generalisability of the nexus between women's education and fertility as well as …

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Anticipated Children and Educational Investment: Evidence from the One-Child Policy in China

Raiber, Eva - 2021

Does the number of future anticipated children affect educational investment in parents-to-be? In theory, anticipated children can affect the returns to education, the resources available for family consumption, and the incentives for pre-marital investment. Changes in the eligibility criteria...

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Do children prevent their poor old parents from working?

Rao, Ziwei - 2021

This study provides the first empirical evidence of the causal impact of fertility outcomes on old-age labor supply, by … exogenous instruments of fertility. The results show strong impact of children on preventing old parents from strenuous works at …

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Fertility Effects of College Education: Evidence from the German Educational Expansion

Kamhöfer, Daniel; Westphal, Matthias - 2018

We estimate the effects of college education on female fertility – a so far understudied margin of education, which we …-career effect on fertility. Coupled with higher labor-supply and wage returns for non-mothers as compared to mothers the timing …

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Making an impact? The importance of aid effectiveness for charitable giving. A laboratory experiment.

Metzger, Laura - 2015

The question if private donors care about aid effectiveness when they donate to an international charity has received little attention in the literature on private charitable giving as well as in development microeconomics. This discussion is important, because a considerable share of foreign...

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Impact of Weather Insurance on Small Scale Farmers: A Natural Experiment

Ibanez, Marcela; Dietrich, Stephan - 2015

This paper explores the impacts of traditional agricultural insurance that offers protection against climatic shocks on small-scale tobacco farmers in Colombia after a period of substantial crop failures. Our identi cation strategy bene ts from a natural experimental setup of the form in which...

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Do Transparent Moneyboxes increase Savings? A Note on Visual Feedback and Savings Behavior

Bohne, Albrecht; Alexandra, Avdeenko; Frölich, Markus; … - 2015

Limited attention may play a role in explaining the inability to reach savings goals (Karlan, McConnell, Mullainathan and Zinman, forthcoming). Presuming that attention is a scarce resource and important for the pursuit of saving plans, limits to attention in inter-temporal consumption and...

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Providing Insurance for Good Repayment Performance: The Individual Emergency Fund, Philippines

Kemper, Niels; Frölich, Markus; Naima Unte, Pia - 2015

Asymmetric information impairs the functioning of credit markets, in particular in developing countries where incomplete property rights and lack of collateral are a common joint occurrence. In such an environment financial institutions enable lending by transferring the responsibilities for the...

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Overconfidence, Underconfidence, and the Use of Persuasive Messages in the Attainment of Savings Goals

Avdeenko, Alexandra; Bohne, Albrecht; Frölich, Markus; … - 2015

The presentation analyzes whether the success of persuasive messages depends on an individual's behavioral bias: If at the onset of a savings period saving goals are chosen with over- or underconfidence, i.e. individuals over- or underestimate their savings potential, individuals might save too...

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